A Palestinian aid official was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, according to local sources on Wednesday. Amjad Hathat, the director of the Emergency Committee in western Gaza, was killed when Israeli fighter jets struck a gathering of people facilitating the transportation of aid...

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Mustafa on Friday accepted the task of forming a new government.   “The Prime Minister-designate accepted in a letter sent to the president tonight his assignment to form the 19th government as specified in the law and to pursue...

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli air strikes on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.  The government media office in Gaza said that 36 people were killed and many more wounded after aerial bombardment of the camp late on Friday night. Israeli jets targeted a...

AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years,  Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict , the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of  President Bashar Assad , various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict...