PARIS- Israel will likely agree in the coming days to develop the range of supplies flowing into the blockaded Gaza strip, the special envoy for Middle East peace Tony Blair said on Thursday....

JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday intensified calls for face-to-face peace talks with the Palestinians, pledging to visit Ramallah if Palestinian president Mahmud...

AMMAN- A group of Jordanian trade unionists who tried to get into the blockaded Gaza Strip returned home on Tuesday after Egypt denied them entry through the Rafah crossing. "We decided to go back...

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told his Russian counterpart on Tuesday that he saw no chance of meeting international aspirations for Palestinian statehood...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama welcomed Saudi King Abdullah to the White House on Tuesday, as he seeks to reinvigorate his Middle East peace drive and crank up pressure on Iran over its...

BEIRUT- Israel on Monday handed over to UN peacekeepers a Lebanese shepherd whom it detained a day earlier near a border enclave occupied by the Jewish state but claimed by Beirut, an official said....

GAZA CITY- Masked gunmen set fire to a UN-run summer camp in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip overnight in the second such attack in just over a month, the UN refugee agency said on Monday. The UN...

MOSUL- Iraqi gunmen killed two civilians in the main northern city of Mosul on Sunday as a sapper died trying to defuse a roadside bomb, police said. Machine gun fire felled one civilian outside...

CAIRO- Egypt's youths are being repressed by the government which is preventing them from taking part in political life, the United Nations said in a report on Sunday. "There should be a margin of...