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On Monday, an area of Jerusalem's national military cemetery where soldiers killed in Gaza are buried was filled with mourners and emotion as...
Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said Monday he had left Iran after being sentenced to jail on national security charges, a day ahead of the...
The Israeli military has stepped up strikes in northern and central Gaza as well as in the southern city of Rafah, where it ordered more...
Israel battled Hamas in Gaza on Monday, including in far-southern Rafah, despite US warnings against a full-scale invasion of the crowded city and...
Thousands fled northern Gaza on Monday as renewed shelling pounded areas where Israel says Hamas militants have regrouped, despite having announced...
Tunisian lawyers protested and launched a nationwide strike on Monday over the arrest of a lawyer and political commentator in a weekend police...
Emirates announced a record high profit for the fiscal year ending in April on Monday, marking a positive milestone as the gulf airline competition...
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday signed a decree approving a new government, days after he dissolved the parliament...
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday signed a decree approving a new government, days after he dissolved the...
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday signed a decree approving a new government, days after he dissolved the...
Anyone expecting immediate results from Saudi Arabia's unprecedented splurge on football stars was probably disappointed as the billion-dollar...
An all-out Israeli offensive on the Gaza city of Rafah would provoke "anarchy" without eliminating Hamas, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said...
Israelis stood still and flags flew at half-mast on Sunday as the country marked an especially painful Memorial Day following the carnage of the...
A conference of international donors in Kuwait pledged over $2 billion in aid to Gaza Sunday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an...
War-weary Gazans flooded towards coastal areas of the Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah on Sunday, fleeing heavy bombardment in eastern zones...
Israel struck Gaza on Sunday and troops were battling militants in several areas of the Hamas-run territory, where the health ministry said the...
Switzerland promised a joyous celebration Sunday for Nemo, the first non-binary performer to win the Eurovision Song Contest at the end of one of...
Israel struck Gaza on Sunday and troops were battling militants in several areas of the Palestinian territory after an Israeli evacuation order...
Israel launched strikes on Gaza Sunday after it expanded an evacuation order for Rafah, with the United Nations warning an outright invasion of the...
Music fans who gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to watch the Eurovision contest decried juries' snubs of Israel as "obviously political". The mood...
Switzerland's Nemo won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, becoming the first artist identifying as non-binary to claim victory, in a...
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Madrid on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in war-torn Gaza and a severing of ties between...
Eurovision fans gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday to watch the show taking place in Sweden on big screens said they were hoping voters would finally...
The Eurovision Song Contest final gets underway in Sweden's Malmo on Saturday, as tensions mount around Israel's participation during the Gaza war....
Iraq, one of the world's biggest oil producers, aims to boost its crude reserves to more than 160 billion barrels, Oil Minister Hayan Abdel Ghani...
Israeli strikes on Saturday hit parts of Gaza including Rafah where Israel expanded an evacuation order and the UN warned of "epic" disaster if an...
Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Saturday after renewed US criticism over its conduct of the war and a UN warning of "epic" disaster if an outright...
The United States issued Friday a stunning criticism of Israel's use of American weapons in the Gaza war, after Israeli forces intensified...
US President Joe Biden’s declaration that the United States is withholding arms to Israel for a possible military operation in Rafah may be too...
WASHINGTON — A State Department report Friday on Israel’s military conduct in the Gaza Strip said it was “reasonable to assess” that...
A long-awaited State Department report on Friday criticized Israel's use of US weapons in the Gaza war but did not find enough evidence of...
WASHINGTON — A State Department report on Israel’s military conduct in the Gaza Strip said it was “reasonable to assess” that US-provided...
WASHINGTON — A State Department report on Israel’s military conduct in the Gaza Strip said it was “reasonable to assess” that US-provided...
As the Israeli military continues to fight in eastern Rafah, the government will soon have to decide on its next step, namely, for how long and to...
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired Katyusha rockets at Israel on Friday in retaliation for strikes, which state media said killed...
Heavy clashes erupted Friday between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in el-Fasher, capital of North...
WASHINGTON — The UN General Assembly voted Friday to grant Palestine additional privileges at the United Nations and called on the Security Council...
Jerusalem native Bashar Murad was determined to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest, but with no option to represent Palestinians, he opted to...
Police carried out pre-dawn swoops Friday on students protesting the war in Gaza at two prestigious US universities, in the latest unrest on...
TEL AVIV — The rift between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden reached an unprecedented low this week over the Israel...
Israel bombarded Gaza including Rafah on Friday after negotiators left truce talks in Cairo without a deal and a senior UN official said aid...
Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having...
CIA director Bill Burns, the Israeli and the Hamas delegations left Cairo on Thursday with no deal reached on a cease-fire or hostage release,...
Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet over the conduct of its war against Hamas, vowing to...
Freed Gaza hostages Gabriela Leimberg and her brother Fernando Marman visited Auschwitz for the first time this week and said they want just one...
Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza's crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to cut off artillery shells and other...
A US container ship loaded with aid for Gaza left Cyprus Thursday in a new test of a maritime corridor to get relief into the besieged Palestinian...
Hamas on Thursday called for an end to airdrops of aid after two Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza when a aid pallet crashed into a...
Donald Trump accused election rival Joe Biden Thursday of siding with Hamas when he threatened to stop sending US weapons to Israel as it wages war...
Iran is ready to change its nuclear doctrine if it is threatened by Israel, an adviser to its supreme leader warned on Thursday, raising renewed...
Both the Israeli and the Hamas delegations as well as CIA director Bill Burns left Cairo on Thursday with no deal reached on a cease-fire or...
The Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) and US energy giant ExxonMobil have signed a deal for liquified natural gas believed to be worth...
Smoke rose from strikes on Gaza's crowded southern city of Rafah Thursday after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop supplying artillery shells and...
When Ammar Alhaqbani first picked up a racket two decades ago while living in the United States, he knew very little about the tennis scene in his...
In North Africa, where political speech is often harshly policed, football stadiums have long been an exception. Now, fans are using that small...
Israeli defense technology company Elbit Systems announced Wednesday it had signed a contract worth approximately $53 million to supply its...
ANKARA — Turkey has concluded deliberations on a $23 billion sale package including 40 new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets from the United...
Israel's closure of key crossings into Gaza has cut off the main entry point for aid, and particularly fuel, rendering humanitarian operations all...
Republicans in both chambers of Congress are uniting in their threat to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) if the Hague-based tribunal...
ANKARA — Tensions between Turkey and Israel escalated on Thursday after the Israeli side claimed that the Turkish government was easing the trade...
Israel qualified for this weekend's Eurovision song contest grand finale, defying thousands of demonstrators marching on Thursday in host country...
After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected on Friday to grant them some additional...
Days after the October 7 attack, Joe Biden walked onto the tarmac in Tel Aviv and offered a warm bear hug to Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign both of...
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US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that if the Israeli military launches a full-scale operation in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, the...
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he would stop US weapons supplies to Israel if it attacks Rafah in southern Gaza, his most direct warning to...
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he would stop US weapons supplies to Israel if it attacks Rafah in southern Gaza, his most direct warning to...
In halting a shipment of thousands of bombs, President Joe Biden has sent his most serious signal yet both to Israel and his domestic critics,...
Israeli authorities destroyed around 50 homes belonging to Bedouins in the Negev desert on Wednesday, an AFP journalist reported, with Israel's...