Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has fired all of his advisers, his office said Monday, amid a financial crisis in the occupied West Bank that has prompted deep salary cuts. Abbas's office did not provide further details on the number of advisers or the costs involved, pointing only to a...

Israeli forces detained 23 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the military on Monday.  A military statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in hostile popular activities", without elaborating...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled territory of Walikale, hundreds of kilometers away from where previous cases near the border with Uganda and Rwanda occurred, the Health Ministry said overnight. Pinga, the...

Pro-regime forces were locked in heavy fighting with insurgents Sunday near a militant-run town in northwestern Syria, leaving dozens of combatants dead, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "fierce clashes" between loyalist forces, militants and allied...