CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egypt has launched a wide security sweep of Sinai, as it continued to deny on Tuesday that the heavily-guarded peninsula could have been used to launch rockets that landed in...

JERUSALEM- The Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now has documented 492 violations of a partial moratorium on new construction in the occupied West Bank set to expire in September, the group said on...

GAZA CITY- A Jordanian children's musical troupe well-known for songs that glorify "martyrdom" in battle with Israel was to perform a rare outdoor concert in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday....

UNITED NATIONS, Gerard Aziakou- UN chief Ban Ki-moon sets up a four-member panel Monday to probe Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla after a surprising U-turn from the Israelis who...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward - Several rockets apparently fired Monday from Egypt's Sinai at the Israeli resort of Eilat killed one person and wounded five in the nearby Jordanian port of Aqaba but caused...

CAIRO- Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak discussed on Sunday efforts to relaunch direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the Egyptian presidency...

KHARTOUM, Guillaume Lavallee- Members of an Arab nomadic tribe are settling in a contested region straddling north and south Sudan, hoping to vote in a referendum next year that will define its...

WASHINGTON- US websites that allow employers to transfer money to far-flung employees may have been used to secretly finance the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, a US newspaper reported...

BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- A landmark visit by Syrian and Saudi leaders may have helped to ease tensions in Lebanon, but did little to address the crux of the problem in the long-run, analysts said on...