RAMALLAH, West Bank: A bid for U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Mideast peace efforts, a Palestinian...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Masked gunmen publicly shot dead six suspected collaborators with Israel in a large Gaza City intersection Tuesday, witnesses said. An...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Gaza's Hamas rulers are aiming high in the conditions they place on stopping rocket fire into Israel in indirect cease-fire talks...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The image of a dead preschooler cradled by the prime ministers of Egypt and Gaza in a hospital hallway Friday has drawn attention to...
DOHA: The newly elected leader of Syria’s main opposition bloc in exile blames international inaction, rather than divisions among anti-regime groups, for the...
DOHA: The leadership of Syria’s main opposition group in exile emerged as an all-male affair after elections failed to promote a single woman to the...
DOHA, Qatar: Sharp disagreements arose Sunday on the first day of a Syrian opposition conference meant to forge a more cohesive leadership that the...
BEIRUT: Syrian warplanes on Tuesday struck a strategic rebel-held town in the country's north in an attempt to reopen a key supply route, activists said,...
ARSAL: This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened...
BEIRUT: The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs - indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations - in a new sign of...
BEIRUT: The U.S. and regional allies are closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons - caught in the midst of a raging civil war - but options for...
BEIRUT: Retaliatory Turkish artillery strikes deep into Syria have showed the speed with which the bloody civil war can entangle its neighbors and destabilize...
BEIRUT: The number of Syrians in need of food aid has jumped from 250,000 in April to 1.5 million today, the head of the U.N.'s food agency said Monday,...
RAFAH, GAZA: Business is down because of an Egyptian security clampdown, but smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border keep operating under the...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given final approval to dig up Yasser Arafat's remains and is also pressing for an...
JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched his broadest weapons crackdown in years, for the first time confronting his...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank: The Palestinians on Wednesday made a final push to have UNESCO recognize the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the...
SUSIYA, West Bank: Palestinians in this hamlet have clung to their arid acres for decades, living without proper electricity or water while Israel provides...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: A member of the Palestinian national soccer team, imprisoned by Israel for nearly three years, agreed Monday to end a hunger strike of...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's embattled prime minister has fought off an attempt to push him out of office, aided by divisions among his opponents and Iranian...
BAGHDAD: For residents of Azamiyah, once one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, the opening of a department store selling party dresses, imported...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: The late Yasser Arafat's powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption probe to date, facing...
BEIRUT: Exiled Syrian opposition figures on Sunday urged voters to boycott an upcoming parliamentary election, dismissing it as a cynical attempt by President...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Efforts to reunify the Palestinians behind one leadership appear to have hit a dead end: Hamas leaders ruling the Gaza Strip have...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: The Obama administration has told Palestinian leaders to expect little help with their statehood bid during the U.S. presidential...