RAFAH, Palestine: The youngest to die was a 4-day-old girl, the oldest a 92-year-old man. They were among at least 844 Palestinians killed as a result of...
AMMAN: Jordan's king rushed home Wednesday, cutting short a U.S. trip, to rally public support for even tougher strikes against ISIS after the militants...
TOKYO: The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot were unknown Friday, a day after the latest purported deadline for a possible prisoner...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A majority of Palestinians killed in dozens of Israeli attacks on Gaza homes in the 2014 war with Hamas were women, minors or the elderly,...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: After a decade in power, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has little to show. He is no closer to a deal on Palestinian statehood, has...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: The U.N. has accepted a request by observer state Palestine to join the International Criminal Court, clearing the way for possible war...
RAMALLAH: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he supports further negotiations over a draft resolution on ending Israel's occupation of Palestinian...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: Two-thirds of Palestinians say they are afraid to criticize Mahmoud Abbas, according to a poll, and some of the Palestinian president’s...
RAMALLAH: Israeli officials say a blaze last month at a West Bank mosque most likely resulted from an electrical problem, not arson.The Nov. 12 fire destroyed...
MAAN, Jordan: The three young Jordanians didn’t start out as extremists. They grew up in mainstream Muslim families. But they grew increasingly angry at what...
MAAN, Jordan: Local authorities quickly stripped away public signs of support for ISIS in this desert town. Black flags have been removed from rooftops....
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: In razing family homes of Palestinian attackers, Israel is reviving a draconian punishment it largely halted a decade ago as ineffective...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The new Palestinian unity government held a Cabinet meeting in the war-battered Gaza Strip for the first time Thursday, marking the end...
KHUZAA, Gaza Strip (AP) - More than five weeks after the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or badly...
AMMAN: On a recent evening, two of Jordan’s top pro-Al-Qaeda ideologues held court on the rooftop of a villa decorated with strings of lights. Sporting shaggy...
AMMAN: A Jordanian military court Wednesday acquitted radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada on terrorism charges for his role in plotting attacks against...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Gaza's ruling Hamas placed dozens of activists from the rival Fatah movement under house arrest during the Gaza war and shot several...
DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: Mohammad al-Telbani lost his life’s work when Israeli shells repeatedly slammed into his four-story snack and cookie factory during...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: In the grisly math of the Israel-Hamas war, conflicting counts of combatants and civilians killed in Gaza are emerging – with the ratio...
GAZA CITY: In the grisly math of the Israel-Hamas war, conflicting counts of combatants and civilians killed in Gaza are emerging - with the ratio perhaps...
GAZA CITY: Bassem Abul Qumbus looked in despair at what was left of his home. Shells had punched holes in an upper-floor bedroom. A wall had collapsed into...
GAZA CITY: Nearly a month into Israel’s fierce assault on Hamas in Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing mounting domestic pressure to seek war...
JERUSALEM: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that he had not yet reached a deal between Israel and Hamas to call a seven-day humanitarian truce...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: The text message was as urgent as it was unwelcome: The Israeli army advised Mouin Ghaffir to leave his home quickly or risk being...
GAZA CITY: The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their...