RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The official news agency of the Palestinian Authority says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has set a date for seeking nonme...

PARIS -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has held productive talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hopes to build mome...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority says it can't pay its workers their salaries this month because of a financial crisis in the Wes...

CAIRO — The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas took an important step toward reconciliation on Thursday, announcing plans for the Islami...

JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday reopened a temporary walkway leading to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, just two days after closing it, de...

PARIS — Palestinians raised their flag at the headquarters of the U.N. cultural agency in Paris on Tuesday as the agency's 195th member, a histo...

JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants fired at least 11 rockets into Israel on Friday after an airstrike against a Hamas target in Gaza that killed ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militant facilities in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing a Palestinian civilian an...

CAIRO — Rival Palestinian leaders on Thursday held their first detailed talks on reconciliation since the Islamic militant Hamas seized control ...

LONDON — Britain will abstain from the United Nations vote on the Palestinian bid for statehood, Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza's Hamas rulers say 300 Palestinian prisoners freed in a recent swap for a captured Israeli soldier will take part i...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Bosnian leaders urging them not to support the Palestinian bid for st...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Emboldened by their admission to the U.N.'s cultural agency, the Palestinians plan to seek membership in other internation...

PARIS — The Palestinian request for full membership in the U.N. Cultural Agency goes to a vote on Monday. Frustrated by stalled peace talks and...

By DAN PERRY and ARON HELLER, The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a much-anticipated prisoner exchange that could have broad implications, Is...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Obama administration warned the U.N. cultural agency to stay out of the question of Palestinian statehoo...

PARIS — Palestinians cleared their first hurdle Wednesday to full membership in the U.N. cultural agency, an official said, as they expand and a...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A small crowd of Palestinian protesters accosted an American diplomatic delegation visiting the West Bank Tuesday, blockin...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials said Monday that the U.S. has suspended West Bank development projects worth tens of millions of dol...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians can't resume negotiations with Israel under current conditions and will pursue their bid to win U.N. reco...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian protesters have denounced President Barack Obama for his opposition to their bid to win U.N. recognition of a Pales...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president said Friday he would ask the U.N. Security Council next week to endorse his people's decades-lon...

JERUSALEM — The Middle East conflict faces a critical diplomatic moment this month with the Palestinians apparently sticking to their plan to as...

When negotiations related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict do resume, a sober stocktaking of the prospects leaves little room for optimism.