Senior Israeli diplomats are eagerly working to open new communication channels with Egypt’s Islamists, so far seen as the major…
Syria has agreed to allow an Arab observer mission into the country, ending weeks of prevarication that had prompted the…
Some 550 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails late Sunday, December 18, in the second phase of an Egyptian-sponsored…
More than 70 Syrian army commanders and officials have been named by former soldiers as having ordered attacks on unarmed…
A large number of Jewish settlers at dawn Wednesday set fire to a mosque in the occupied Jerusalem as part…
In a historical moment, President Mahmoud Abbas has raised the Palestinian flag for the first time at the headquarters of…
More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said,…
New rules requiring Muslim women to remove their full face veil or niqab while they take the oath of Canadian…
A man has opened fire with an assault rifle and thrown grenades in the Belgian city of Liege, staging an…
Hundreds of army defectors in southern Syria have fought with loyalist forces in one of the biggest armed confrontations in…