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Gaza - The Islamist Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip on Saturday accused Israel of fabricating pretexts to pave the way for a fresh military attack on the Gaza Strip. Israel recently accused Hamas of having test-fired a long-range Iranian...
Hamas has suspended its rocket launches against Israel since the Gaza Strip war and is similarly curbing other armed Palestinian factions in the territory, Israel's military chief said on Friday.
Hamas authorities did an about face on Saturday and dropped a plan to keep schools in the Gaza Strip open on a Palestinian holiday founded by the rival Fatah faction.
Egyptian border guards have shot and killed at least 15 migrants since May, prompting an outcry from human rights watchers. African immigrants increasingly use a path into Israel that goes through Egypt.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday that he had no "Israeli partner" ready to push forward the Middle East peace process, rebuffing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer of talks.
Egyptian police shot an African migrant dead at dawn on Saturday when he was trying to sneak illegally across the border into Israel, a security official told AFP.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that U.S. President Barack Obama should come up with a firm plan of action to renew peace talks between Syria and Israel.
Syrian President Bashar Assad says peace talks with Israel could resume if the Jewish state showed willingness to fully engage in the process.
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A Jordanian academic has predicted that Israel will go to war with neighboring Lebanon and Egypt to get their water.
Lebanon's new government, a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant Hezbollah, is unlikely to tackle the chief challenge the country faces — a buildup of the Iranian-backed group's weapons — even as the rockets cause sharp new tensions with neighboring Israel.
Sana'a, Yemen - The Saudi army bombed Shiite rebel positions deep inside Yemen territories on Saturday, with artillery and fighter jets striking new targets, the rebels said in a statement. They said 145 missiles hit areas in al-Malahid, Shada and al...
Syrian President Bashar Assad urged France on Friday to support Turkish mediation efforts to get momentum in the Middle East peace process.
Speaking at the forum of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Syrian President Bashar Assad warned Israel that if the Golan Heights are not returned through peaceful negotiations Syria will take the disputed territory militarily. That was followed Wednesday by hints from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he was open to peace talks with Syria [...]
More than half of Israelis would support peace talks with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas if it recognized Israel, a poll published on Friday said.
Israel said on Thursday it was ready to talk peace with Syria, whose leader is visiting Paris on the heels of talks there between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Washington, 13 November (WashingtonTV)—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that his country wants to resume peace talks with Israel through Turkish mediation, but that he did not see a partner in the Israeli side.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to breathe life into the Middle East peace process Friday, hosting his Syrian counterpart just two days after talks with the Israeli prime minister.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Female U.S. soldiers training in Israel recently couldn’t help but notice that their Israeli counterparts looked very different. Their hair hung down their backs in loose, fetching ponytails.
More than 1.5 million tourists visited Lebanon in the first 10 months of 2009, or 43 percent more than the same year-earlier period, the tourism ministry said on Saturday.
An interesting twist in the latest Palestinian leadership crises may see the presidency default to a Hamas man.
Tehran - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday invited his Egyptian counterpart to Tehran but did not disclose the date, ISNA news agency reported. Iran has tried in the last ten years to normalize diplomatic relations with Egypt. ...
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