WASHINGTON- Barring unlikely 11th-hour objections, a 60-billion-dollar US arms sale to Saudi Arabia was set Friday to go into effect despite initial worries from US lawmakers over its impact on...

JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he was pursuing "intensive contacts" with the United States that might lead to relaunching peace talks with the...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt accused the United States on Thursday of meddling in its affairs in an unusually harsh criticism after Washington called for foreign monitors in this month's election...

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy- The last muse of Charles "Hank" Bukowski, the alcoholic and womanizing US author who used blunt prose to write about society's downtrodden, still lives in the home she...

ROME- Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will travel to Gaza next week as part of a tour of the Middle East aimed at giving a push to the peace process," his spokesman said on Wednesday. "We...

JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to "soon" clinch a deal with the United States over a fresh freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank, his...

JERUSALEM- Ghajar, a divided village which straddles the border between Lebanon and the occupied Golan Heights, looked set to be redivided on Wednesday after Israel voted to hand over the northern...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is awaiting written details of a US package of incentives in exchange for a new West Bank settlement freeze before convening his security cabinet,...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Amnesty International said on Tuesday that Egypt should immediately investigate allegations that a teenager was killed in detention in the same area another man died after...