The Israeli air force hit the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers early on Wednesday after Palestinians fired at southern Israel, the military said. Late on Tuesday, the military said that an undefined "projectile" was fired from Gaza toward southern Israel. A spokeswoman told AFP that it...

Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters riding on a motorcycle in Gaza were killed in an explosion Tuesday, health officials said. Israel's military denied accounts by local residents that they were killed in an air strike. Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has flared since U.S....

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday intensified efforts to rally Middle Eastern countries against U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, setting up talks with Arab leaders beginning in Cairo. Abbas will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, which...

The Syrian regime army and Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power stepped up a military campaign against rebels in eastern Hama province in a push toward the rebel stronghold of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, rebels and witnesses said. They said dozens of aerial...