RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this month shone a light on Israel's mass incarceration of Palestinians, one of the many bitter fruits of the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed...

Turkey's military has dispatched thousands of additional troops to opposition-held northwestern Syria ahead of a critical meeting with Russian and Iranian leaders next week, a report said Thursday. While officials did not speak of a new cross-border operation, they have consistently...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban expanded their interim Cabinet by naming more ministers and deputies on Tuesday, but failed to appoint any women, doubling down on a hard-line course despite the international outcry that followed their initial presentation of an all-male government lineup...

MOSCOW (AP) — Voting has ended in Russia’s parliamentary election and the country's elections commission says early results Sunday from a limited number of polling stations show the country’s Kremlin-loyal United Russia party in the lead. Results from nearly 9% of the country’s...