Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2004 file photo, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, left, with his wife Asma, right, meets reporters at the National ...

Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, a Palestinian, was convicted of obstruction of justice and criminal contempt after he refused to answer certain questions before a grand jury. Because the grand ...

Authorities tried to deport a Palestinian activist who served more than a decade in prison, but because of a federal court ruling, he is now back in Virginia. Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 60, was arrested and ...

CHICAGO – A Palestinian activist jailed for refusing to testify about the militant group Hamas (search) was freed Monday on $874,500 bond after a two-month hunger strike. "I thank God and my community ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A northern Virginia man who says he fears torture at the hands of Israeli authorities is back in the U.S. after a judge ordered immigration authorities to reverse his deportation ...

A federal judge Thursday refused to stop the trial of two men accused of activities supporting the militant Islamic Palestinian group Hamas, rejecting their attorneys’ argument that an organization’s ...

A northern Virginia man who says he fears torture at the hands of Israeli authorities is back in the US after a judge's order forced immigration authorities to reverse his deportation and bring him ...

correctionA Dec. 3 article incorrectly said that Abdelhaleem Ashqar, an Alexandria resident who is a candidate in the Palestinian presidential elections, has three children. He has no children.

Lebanese singer Hana Idrisi is grouping up with the Lebanese singer Joe Ashqar in a new duet called “Lilsahra” (For the Evening) that was written by Al Yas Naser, composed by Tareq Abu Judeh, ...