Rami Hamdallah has been appointed Prime Minister of Palestine by President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamdallah is a well-respected academic and head of al-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus. The recent appointment came after former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ...

From May 21 to May 27, Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Middle East. His visit will begin in Oman, and then he will move to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank. In Jordan, Kerry will ...

The State Department's annual human rights report on Israel and the occupied territories focused their findings on Israel and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and had an annex to the report for their findings on the occupied territories including areas subject to ...

Congressmen Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) introduced a resolution in Congress to prevent a takeover of the Palestinian Authority by Hamas and to promote responsible Palestinian leadership. The bill urges President Mahmoud Abbas to prevent a ...

Secretary of State John Kerry visited Turkey, the West Bank, and Israel this weekend. It is his third visit to the region since taking office in February. While in Istanbul, Kerry urged Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to ...

President Barack Obama will depart on March 20 for a four day visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan on his first overseas trip of his second term. Obama will meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday ...

Palestinian hunger striker and Israeli prisoner Samer Issawi appeared before an Israeli court on Tuesday and was ultimately denied a release on bail. Issawi, who has refused food for 211 days, has now appeared before the court three times regarding his release and each ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met  in Cairo yesterday with Hamas political chief Kahled Meshal for the latest round of reconciliation talks and the first face-to-face meeting between the two parties in over a year.  Both Hamas and Fatah were invited to Cairo ...

The U.S. Department of State called on both sides of the Syrian conflict to “stop unlawful attacks on civilians and comply with international law” on December 17. The call came after reports that a number of civilians had ...

To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Arab Spring, the Woodrow Wilson Center released a report, titled "Has the Arab Spring Lived up to Expectations?" The report features opinions from 39 experts from the Middle East, North Africa, ...

The Arab League Ministerial Council concluded its meeting in Doha without reaching a conclusion to the Arab Peace Initiative or the reevaluation of the peace process. Qatar's Prime Minister, Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said the initiative would "not ...

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) called for the U.S. to immediately suspend aid to Tunisia because Tunisian officials have not allowed FBI agents to interview a man detained in connection to the September 11 Benghazi attacks. In a letter addressed to ...

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was greeted by large crowds during his first visit to the Gaza Strip, where he will participate in an official celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas. Representatives of the ...

Khaled Meshaal is due to make his first ever visit to the Gaza Strip. He will join celebrations for Hamas’s 25th anniversary and meet members of different Palestinian movements, "as well as representatives of the families of martyrs, prisoners and those ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan has alluded to a postponement of the upcoming parliamentary elections. During a government banquet, Abdullah said “The elections will be held on time, unless something new or urgent takes place.” Additionally, the widening ...