RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup that could severely weaken President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and help its militant Hamas...

Syrian government has proceeded to 50% cut in gasoline allocations for the coastal region, Damascus and northern Aleppo provinces on Wednesday.   Pro-regime media outlets media quoted a member of the executive office of the transport sector in Lattakia, Malik al-Khayer that the move...

Kosovo’s new foreign minister says she considers the opening of the country's embassy in Jerusalem to be “a done deal.” Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla was asked during an interview about the pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put on Kosovo's new government to...

Israeli election officials Wednesday handed over the results of last week's vote to President Reuven Rivlin, nudging forward the country' elusive efforts to break political deadlock, form a government and avoid an unprecedented fifth consecutive round of balloting. Rivlin is now tasked...