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Interview: Hamas official Aziz Dweik, the constitutional successor to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, rejects violence. He seeks to bridge the Hamas divide with Abbas's Fatah party, which weakens Palestinians in talks with Israel.
YAROUN, LEBANON -- Suleiman's brother was a Hezbollah fighter, killed in the 2006 war with Israel. His house was destroyed by an Israeli shell. And now, his life's fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their faith in a billionaire financier with close...
An Israeli air strike wounded four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Israeli military and Palestinian medical workers said.
JERUSALEM - Seeking to lower expectations of an imminent deal with the Islamic group Hamas to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Tuesday that no agreement had yet been reached.
Talk of a possible deal to release an Israeli soldier captured more than three years ago heightened Monday amid diplomatic activity in the region.
Jeddah - Seventy-seven people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wedne...
Deal Would Release 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners for Israeli Soldier Held Hostage for More Than 3 Years
The United States warned Iran on Friday it is prepared to push for significantly stronger economic sanctions against it in the wake of the U.N nuclear watchdog's resolution censuring Tehran's nuclear program.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Israel are trying to force Russia to halt the sale of an $800 million missile system to Iran that will help protect nuclear plants, the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said.
Jeddah - Forty-eight people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wednesd...
MINA, Saudi Arabia — Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual...
The man named as Israel's new ambassador to Egypt is the son of a spy who had been sentenced to death in Lebanon but was eventually part of a prisoner swap, a foreign ministry official said on Monday.
With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran's proxy armies on its borders.
(RTTNews) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Monday dismissed earlier media reports which suggested that the Jewish nation was close to reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas--the radical Islamic group that governs the Gaza Strip, stressing that a prisoner-exchange deal that would secure the freedom of an Israeli soldier abducted by Palestine militants in 2006 is yet ...
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj on Friday as Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar. The weather was sunny and hot Friday morning over the desert valley on Mina, a contrast to the unusually heavy rains that soaked the faithful on ...
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- As Iran tests the capabilities of its air defense systems in nationwide exercises, the Israeli air force is reported to be planning special seminars to prepare its attack pilots to cope with heavy surface-to-air missile defenses.
JERUSALEM (Agence France-Presse) | Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday that there has been "progress" in talks to free soldier Gilad Shalit, who has held captive by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip for the past three years. "Everyone knows there is progress, and I hope it will come to something," Mr. Peres said on Channel 2 commercial television on his return from a trip to Egypt ...
With the support of Russia and China, the panel also demanded that Iran freeze operations “immediately” at a once-secret uranium enrichment plant.
In the days leading up to Eid al-Adha, Zaid Khadar would usually be buying new clothes for his children and stocking up on traditional foods to celebrate one of the most important dates on the Muslim calendar.
Seeking to lower expectations of an imminent deal with the militant Islamic group Hamas to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday no agreement had been reached.
Efforts by Lebanon's new government to agree on a policy statement have again stumbled over Hezbollah's weapons, with Christian members of the Western-backed majority rejecting a hands-off approach.
