(CNN) — Palestinians demonstrating in support of Egyptian anti-government protesters were forcibly disbanded when a few dozen men in plain clothes disrupted the protest.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned U.S. President Barack Obama that the Palestinians would abandon recently announced direct peace negotiations with Israel if settlement expansion continues in the West Bank.

Masked gunmen in the Gaza Strip have set fire to a United Nations-run summer camp for children. This follows a similar attack in May on another UN-run summer camp. Some militants view the UN as a symbol of the West and claim that the summer camps...

For Nablus High Street at 9am on a Friday there is quite an atmosphere. Thousands of cheering locals line the pavements and rooftops. A DJ belts out dance tunes on a huge sound system. And most strikingly there is the overwhelming smell of burning...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused the rival Hamas movement of smuggling weapons into the West Bank territory under his control. “On the one hand, the organization is punishing those who launch rockets in Gaza,...

Egypt has allowed 84 pro-Palestinian foreign activists to march to Gaza, which is under an Israeli-led blockade, an Egyptian official in the North Sinai governorate said. Some 1,400 activists from 43 countries had gathered in Cairo since Sunday to mark...

Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border. U.S. officials applauded Iraq for standing its...

Archaeologists have discovered the first known burial shroud in Jerusalem from the time of Christ’s crucifixion - and say it casts serious doubt on the claimed authenticity of the Turin Shroud. Ancient shrouds from the period have been found...

An Israeli soldier snatches some sleep after live-fire drills yesterday on the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Syria warned Israel that it put peace talks in peril after the tabling of a Bill requiring any withdrawal from...

Mounting discontent over the building ban, announced at the end of November, has already manifested itself in a series of scuffles between egg-throwing settlers and Israeli police officers. But this week hardline Jewish activists have signalled a...