Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, said Erbil-based Rudaw TV

A severe electricity shortage in Gaza leaves residents with as little as four hours of power a day in the sweltering summer heat. Who gets electricity and when?

Egypt's intelligence agency is sending a senior delegation of its own to oversee the discussions and the transfer of government ministries from Hamas to the Palestinian Authority

'All weapons will have to be under the control of the Palestinian Authority and rule of law,' Palestinian president says

'When an American buys a gun and kills other Americans then there's nothing we can do about that [because] the second amendment, I guess'

Rainer Weiss among Nobel Prize winners for contributions that proved Einstein right

Mark Zuckerberg's bland Jewish allusions don’t substitute for taking a real moral stand on Facebook's raw power to channel incitement, hate and electoral espionage

Khalil and Reem Bakly, two Muslims from northern Israel, are inviting Jews and Arabs from near and far to join them at their super-sized, 100% kosher sukkah for food, music, laughs and discussion