The mid-October World Bank report forecasted modest growth for the MENA region, with the GDP growth rate rising from 1.8 percent in 2023 to 2.2 percent in 2024. This increase is driven by Gulf ...

For more than a year, undeterred by the intense heat or heavy downpours, a number of people have gathered each week on the ...

Jerusalem officials say they are razing structures as part of an “urban renewal” project. Rights groups fear Israel is ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas was nowhere ...

Debt ceiling raised in party-line vote, from 6.6% to 7.7% of GNP, unlocking NIS 33 billion ($9b) for defense spending; ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A septuagenarian Israeli woman who was taken hostage during Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on 0ct. 7, 2023 has died. She was among the 250 hostages the Palestinian militant ...

The northern regions of Israel bore the brunt of these attacks, further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. Despite the ...

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to ongoing war in ...

“The fate of the hostages is contingent upon the Israeli army advancing just hundreds of meters in some of the areas under ...

Walking through the nascent settlement, the sound of children’s laughter is juxtaposed against the sight of multiple sandbagged defensive points where residents can take cover if fighting off ...