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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.
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.
An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that a deal with the Islamist movement Hamas to swap a Gaza-held soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close."
At least four Palestinians were wounded, one of them seriously, in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip on Friday, emergency services said.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Massacre in Mindanao SI Analysis: At least 57 people were brutally killed as a result of a longstanding...
Syria must join with other Arab nations in the effort to isolate Iran. For too long, it has served as a destabilizing force in the region.
An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that a deal with the Islamist Hamas movement to swap a Gaza-held soldier in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close."
JERUSALEM, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Israel pardoned members of the Fatah military wing in the West Bank for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Maan news agency said.
JERUSALEM -- Hamas leaders raced to Egypt yesterday amid signs of progress on a swap of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive by the Islamic militant group for more than three years. The exchange could boost Hamas a...
A deal for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit could be sealed by Friday, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha told Haaretz on Sunday.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Senior Hamas officials from the Gaza Strip and Syria met in Cairo to discuss a prisoner exchange deal that would free Gilad Shalit , an Israeli soldier who has been held by the Palestinian group for three years, an official said.
