Saudi Arabian prince Turki al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief and still a top figure in the country’s royal family, reportedly told a Bahraini security conference on Wednesday that Gulf states should cooperate on obtaining “nuclear know-how” in order to balance gains made by Iran, the latest in what has become...

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki on Wednesday blasted the announcement, made earlier in the day by top Palestinian figures including Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, that the rival Fatah and Hamas factions had settled on an agreement that would among other things lead to the establishment of a new...

Top U.S. and Israeli officials on Monday reacted coldly to threats by Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders that they might disband the Palestinian government and transfer control of their territory to either Israel or the United Nations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the threats earlier this week: Prime Minister Binyamin...

The two leading Palestinian factions – Fatah, headed by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and the terrorist organization, Hamas – met in Gaza on April 22 in the latest bid to end the schism between them, at the time the United States and Israel were trying to save from collapse peace...

President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law legislation – previously passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate – that would among other things prohibit Iran’s pick for its next U.N. ambassador from entering the United States. Hamid Aboutalebi was a member of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s...

Ajnad Misr, which announced its formation in January, said it was behind the April 18 bombing in Cairo that killed one police officer and wounded another. The group formally announced itself in January saying it would target “criminal elements” in the military-backed government. It has claimed at least six attacks...