Jerusalem:  An Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group says the government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank. It is the latest move...

Deir Al-Balah:  The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that the Palestinian death toll from nearly nine months of war has surged past 38,000. The ministry said that in...

Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip):  An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and...

Jerusalem:  An anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades. The Israeli group Peace Now said Wednesday that...

United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution with US support urging wealthy developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure that...

Islamabad: A United Nations-led meeting held in Qatar with the Taliban on increasing engagement with Afghanistan does not translate into a recognition of their government, a UN official said Monday....

Khan Younis (Gaza Strip):  Israel released the director of Gaza's main hospital on Monday after holding him for seven months without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been...

Maiduguri:  At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured, including 19 seriously, in coordinated attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza on Saturday,...

Dubai:  A ship traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated missile fire Friday in an attack launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels, authorities said, the latest targeting the crucial maritime...

Kathmandu:  Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on Saturday killed at least nine people including an entire family while they were sleeping in Nepal's mountainous districts, officials said. The landslides buried...