US hoping to ease tensions amid escalating violence, said planning to tell Israel to curb settlements; Jerusalem indicates willingness for meet

PA head says Israeli settlements and ‘rejection of peace’ to blame for round of violence, calls for peaceful resistance; PM: Abbas is lying

New barrier equipped with surveillance cameras, sensors to be modeled on large fence constructed along Egypt border

Critics say President Sissi’s government ‘made election completely colorless’ with ‘laws engineered to take politics out of new parliament’