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Israeli objections to releasing certain prisoners are blocking a swap deal in which an Israeli soldier captured three years would be freed, an official of the Palestinian movement Hamas said on Friday.
Israel and Lebanon have more pressing concerns than war with each other, but bickering could escalate to incite war if the US and Europe don't help.
Senior Hamas officials said Monday that the Islamic militant group is still wrangling with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier, signaling significant gaps in the way of an anticipated deal.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem criticized the U.N. Security Council for not doing enough to end Israeli settlement activity.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Israel in 2010, he said on Friday, following a recent chill in ties between Moscow and Israel's arch-enemy Iran.
The Lebanese army fired on at least four Israel Air Force planes flying over southern Lebanon. Lebanese news media reported Wednesday that the anti-aircraft fire forced the Israeli planes to return to Israel, according to Ha’aretz.
A senior fighter from the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement died on Wednesday in a tunnel collapse in the central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medics and the armed group.
ramallah, west bank | Senior Hamas officials said this week that the Islamic militant group is still sparring with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for captured Israeli solder Gilad Shalit.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A Kuwaiti newspaper reports kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is being held in Egypt until a deal to secure his release is finalized.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Israel’s army is recruiting soldiers for a new unit that is waging a virtual public relations battle on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to improve the military’s image.
Many Israelis have rallied around a Gilad Shalit release deal, but critics say an exchange of the captured soldier for Palestinian prisoners could cause new wave of violence.
Jordan summoned Israeli ambassador Nevo Dani on Thursday to demand a halt to "unilateral actions" by the Jewish state in the walls of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The newly elected chemical weapons chief says he will pursue the last seven holdouts — including Israel, Egypt and Syria — to get them to sign a disarmament treaty and submit weapons stockpiles for inspection.
Lebanon's cabinet on Wednesday adopted a policy statement granting Hezbollah the right to use its arms against Israel, despite the reservations of Christian ministers in the Western-backed majority.
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday protested what it called unilateral Israeli works at the outside wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. A memor...
Palestinian officials have threatened to withdraw from a competition to name the Dead Sea a world natural wonder. The Dead Sea cannot be entered into the New Seven Wonders of Nature competition unless Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan all agree to take part.
JERUSALEM (AP) — An American convicted of spying for Israel is reportedly proposing that Israel kill Hamas prisoners rather than swap them for a captive Israeli soldier.
Lebanon's new government Wednesday endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons, the latest sign that the group has no intention of meeting a U.N. resolution calling for it to disarm.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel cannot do a “damn thing” to stop his country’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad made the statement Wednesday in a televised speech, Reuters reported.
Russia's Tatneft said it would invest $25 million to develop an oil field in eastern Syria. Tatneft identified its target as South Kishma in Dir Al Zour near the Iraqi border and with estimated reserves of 4.89 million tons of oil.
Damascus - An Iranian bus exploded at a petrol station on the outskirts of Damascus on Thursday morning, witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa. Several people, including workers at the petrol station, were killed in the blast, witnesses said, wh...
