MOSCOW, Christophe Schmidt and Antoine Lambroschini - The Middle East Quartet on Friday urged Israel to stop building settlements and set a bold target for a final deal with the Palestinians by 2012...

NEW YORK- The killer of African-American rights activist Malcolm X will be paroled next month after more than four decades in the prison system, an official said Friday. Thomas Hagan, who...

MOSCOW- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late Thursday amid a dispute over Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem, her spokesman said. "Prime...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The Obama administration's row with Israel over settlements has prompted some analysts to wonder whether it seeks "regime change," a new government that can make peace...

CAIRO, Mona Salem- Ten days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak underwent surgery in Germany, there is growing uncertainty over his state of health and increased talk about who will eventually...

BEIRUT- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to to turn a page on the past by meeting Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Hezbollah, which is mediating between the former arch-foes, said on...

JERUSALEM, Michael Blum- Israel on Monday reopened a landmark synagogue in Jerusalem's walled Old City, saying it should symbolise religious tolerance, 62 years after the building was destroyed in...

JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged calm on Sunday as an angry Washington said it was insulted by Israel's "destructive" announcement of plans to expand settlements...

MOSCOW, Alexander Osipovich - It started with a golden bed and African drummers and led to Russia's latest, surprising, political duel pitting tenacious bloggers against bureaucrats whose excesses...