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(RTTNews) - Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas slammed the Arab League (AL) for not boycotting his rival faction, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, after it refused to endorse an Egyptian-drafted reconciliation pact, which was supposed to be signed by all Palestinian factions October 24.
Iran announced Tuesday it will use Italy to launch a communications satellite after waiting years for Russia to do the job, the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported.
Beirut - Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced Monday the line-up of the new national unity cabinet after a six- month political impasse that almost led the country into chaos. Hariri's new cabinet will include 30 ministers, 15 ministers loy...
TEL AVIV — Military sources said the intelligence community has determined that Hamas was intensifying military preparations for another war with Israel.
Palestinian officials have warned that the stalled Middle East peace process and the threatened resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could result in the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group.".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians on Monday, hours before he met with President Obama.
Palestinian leaders are struggling with the aftermath of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he does not intend to run for re-election in a vote scheduled for January. There is no clear-cut successor, and the uncertainty has rattled both Palestinians and Israelis.
The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions it is after atomic bombs but which has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said Monday.
The rocket was reportedly supplied by Iran and can reach Tel Aviv from Gaza. Israeli officials say the launch is the latest sign that the militant group is rebuilding and upgrading its arsenal. Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have test-fired a rocket with a 37-mile range, Israel's military intelligence chief said Tuesday, giving them the capacity to reach deeper into Israel and strike Tel Aviv ...
A wave of floods and landslides has killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
Iran has supplied Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip with a missile that is capable of striking Tel Aviv, Israeli defense sources said.
President Barack Obama held unusually low-profile talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that failed to provide any sign of progress toward reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas.
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Israel's negotiating partner, was raised as a possibility yesterday, as several aides to President Mahmoud Abbas, said he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a quickly scheduled meeting this evening even as the third party in their peace talks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to quit his post to protest the lack of progress.
JERUSALEM - The chief Palestinian negotiator today warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing with the militant Hamas instead...
MIDEAST Israeli politician urges Hamas talks JERUSALEM | A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip. Shaul Mofaz, a former defense chief who is now No. 2 in the centrist Kadima party, raised the prospect of talks with Hamas - an idea rejected by both Israel ...
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The lack of progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could plunge the region into an abyss, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned.
Qalandia Checkpoint, West Bank - Dozens of Palestinians marked the 20th anniversary for the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday by pulling down a section of the concrete barrier erected by Israel between the Qalandia refugee camp and Jerusalem. Palesti...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pursuing nuclear weapons was not in Iran's own interest as she pressed Tehran to accept a UN-backed deal.
