Palestinian Territories News

Israel, a tiny nation, is preventing the collapse of Western civilization in the Middle East.

That story, which is what is actually going on, is one of brutal Israeli repression of a largely defenseless population and Israeli denial of the most basic of human rights.

The Justice Ministry notifies the High Court of its decision in response to a 2010 petition by the Palestinian owners.

First create a Palestinian state, and then make peace, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday in Washington, in a reversal of the conventional wisdom regarding what is needed to achieve an Israeli- Palestinian agreement.

A Palestinian was killed on Saturday when a tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed, AFP reported citing Palestinian medical sources.

In past week Palestinian Authority security forces interrogated, detained two journalists, despite promises to honor freedom of media; interrogators forced reporter to provide them with email and Facebook passwords.

John Kerry is so far not having a good run at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. It's not for a lack of effort: he's about to make his fourth trip of his young tenure as Secretary of State to Israel and the Palestinian territories to try to jumpstart talks.

A Louisville man is in serious trouble after police say he raped and sodomized a woman who was just trying to lend a helping hand.

For more than two years, the Syrian president has defied predictions that his downfall is imminent.

A bipartisan group of congressmen condemned comments made by a Palestinian Fatah official in support of the murderer of an Israeli father of five.

The IDF caught two settlers trying to light a field on fire in the area of Hawara, and turned them over to the Border Police, near Nablus, according to the IDF.

While Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was meeting in his office in Ramallah with Shelly Yacimovich, chairwoman of Israel's opposition Labour Party, his Fatah faction was busy threatening Palestinians who meet with Israelis.

Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early today, security officials said.

Despite US pleas to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he not visit Gaza in June, the Turkish leader stood next to American President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday and pledged to go ahead with the trip.

They say everybody needs a little KFC, and it seems they're right. Gaza residents don't have access to a local branch - so they're willing to pay more than twice the going price to get it delivered from Egypt in a highly complex process that takes some four hours.

We present some of the most dramatic photographs clicked across the globe in the last 24 hours.

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have set a three-month timetable to form a unity government and organize elections, officials from both sides said on Wednesday.

Plus, last month, Mazor was barred from wearing a dress designed by , who was fired from Dior for making anti-Semitic slurs .

Last weekend Ireland again placed itself in the vanguard of anti-Israel activism in the European Union.

Givat Assaf outpost had been slated for demolition because it was built on private Palestinian property; state accepts residents' claim that land was purchased; Peace Now: Authorization would break promises to int'l community.