WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed during a phone conversation Friday that Israel and the Palestinians should "move to direct talks as soon as...

ADAYSSEH- Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said on Saturday he would work to equip the armed forces with all necessary weapons following Tuesday's deadly cross-border exchange with Israeli troops....

JERUSALEM- Jews and Arabs marched shoulder-to-shoulder in occupied east Jerusalem and in towns across Israel on Friday in a joint protest against the eviction of Palestinians to make way for Jewish...

DUBAI, Mohamed Hasni- An explosives-laden boat carried out a "terrorist attack" that damaged a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last week, the United Arab Emirates said on Friday, raising...

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urging him to persuade the country's squabbling political leaders to form a new government,...

BEIRUT, Rana Moussaoui- An escalation along the Lebanese-Israeli border is unlikely despite this week's deadly clashes as all parties, including Hezbollah, appear keen on containing the situation, at...

JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- An Arab Israeli and two Druze residents of the occupied Golan Heights were charged on Thursday with spying for Syria and planning a kidnapping, Israeli officials said....

TEL AVIV, Patrick Moser- A statuette of a pig stands at the centre of a Tel Aviv art show devoted to Israel's firebrand Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that drew protests before it even opened on...

DUBAI- Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday slammed Israel for its "aggression" on Lebanon, a day after a border clash between Lebanese and Israeli soldiers in which four people were...