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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for the delay in releasing an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip for more than three years.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Hamas leadership in Gaza is interested in accepting Israel's latest offer for a prisoner swap to release a captured Israeli soldier, an Arab newspaper reported.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Hamas and Israel for the breakdown of Middle East peace efforts as he sought domestic political backing to remain in power until new elections can be held.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited a senior Egyptian mediator to Jerusalem on Sunday, raising speculation that Israel is about to make its latest response to the Islamist group Hamas for a major prisoner swap.
Israeli intransigence caused a breakdown in negotiations to release an Israeli soldier held by the militant Palestinian group Hamas, its leader said Tuesday.
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Palestine Liberation Organization extended the terms of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and members of parliament through at least June because of an ongoing rift with Hamas.
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Islamic Hamas movement rejected a decision today by the Palestine Liberation Organization to extend the terms of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and members of parliament through at least next June.
Washington, 15 December (WashingtonTV)—Hamas political leader, Khaled Mashaal, said on Tuesday that Islamist militant groups would back Iran if it was attacked by Israel, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.
U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 10 mostly Muslim nations whose governments impose the most curbs on religion, according to a report on Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Beirut - UN and Lebanese military representatives were due to meet Wednesday to discuss Israeli plans for a troop pullout from the northern part of a divided border village. Lebanon fears the planned withdrawal from Ghajar could seal the division of ...
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said that US backing for Israel gave the Jewish state the option of not making peace, in an interview published on Wednesday.
Washington, 15 December (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday called on the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, to continue its resistance against Israel.
A captive Israeli soldier will not be freed until Israel releases hundreds of Palestinians from its jails, Hamas said. “These prisoners are a surety which we must redeem,” Hamas wrote in an official statement Monday that marked the 22nd anniversary of its founding.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip | Hamas mobilized tens of thousands of supporters on Monday for an anniversary rally meant to show that the Islamic militant group has not lost support, despite Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza a year ago. The crowd responded with chants of "We won't recognize Israel" to a fiery speech by Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who said the movement scored a ...
Tehran - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the Palestinian militant group Hamas Tuesday to continue resistance against Israel as the only way to save Palestine, state media reported. The only way to save Palestine is resistanc...
Hamas mobilized tens of thousands of supporters on Monday for an anniversary rally meant to show the Islamic militant group has not lost support despite Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza a year ago.
Beirut - A ship with more than 80 people on board sank off the northern Lebanon port of Tripoli on Thursday, Lebanese security sources said. The Lebanese army and members of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) launched an operation ...
The Obama administration is effectively siding with America's enemies in Leba non. Sure, President Obama said all the right things after his Monday meet-and-greet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman. But Suleiman is aligned with Syria -- and t...
Gaza City - Hamas will never recognize Israel and will liberate all of historic Palestine, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya defiantly promised tens of thousands of people who packed a Gaza City square Monday to celebrate the Islamist group's 22nd anniversa...
Israel arrested five fishermen off the coast of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday after gunboats surrounded their vessel, according to witnesses and a Palestinian security official.
Hamas mobilized tens of thousands of supporters on Monday to show the Islamic militant group has not lost support in the wake of last year's Israeli military assault.
