UN Vote On Israeli Settlements Has Changed Little
Three months after a landmark UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, the measure has changed little on the ground and some ...
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Netanyahu Vows To Move Ahead On New Settlement Plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Thursday to move ahead on a plan to create Israel's first new settlement in the ...
Drone Strikes Kill 5 Qaeda Suspects In Yemen
Drone strikes killed five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Wednesday, a security official said, as the US intensifies ...
Sharp Rise In Israeli Settlement Projects In 2016
Construction on new Israeli settlement homes in the occupied West Bank rose by 40 percent in 2016 compared with the ...
Bombs Rock Damascus As War Enters Seventh Year
Two suicide bombings hit Damascus Wednesday including an attack at a central courthouse that killed at least 32 people, as ...
Trump Envoy Meets Abbas As White House Wades Into Mideast Conflict
US President Donald Trump's administration waded into the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as one of his top advisers held ...
Trump Envoy To Meet Abbas As White House Wades Into Mideast Conflict
US President Donald Trump's administration waded into the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday with one of his top advisers set ...
Top US Prosecutor Fired After Refusing White House Order To Quit
High-profile New York prosecutor Preet Bharara -- who was among the federal attorneys asked to resign by the White House ...
Kennedy Center Shakes Off Staid Image With New Modern Festival
The Kennedy Center, the giant arts complex in Washington, on Wednesday announced a new bid to shake off its staid ...
Top US Commander For Mideast In Secret Syria Trip
The top US military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to northern Syria Friday to meet a ...
Germany To Send Home More Rejected Asylum Seekers
Germany will speed up expulsions of rejected asylum seekers under measures agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet Wednesday, as controversy ...
Egypt, Jordan Say No Concessions On A Palestinian State
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan agreed Tuesday there could be no concessions on establishing ...
Syria Talks Remain Focussed On ‘political Transition’
Upcoming Syria peace talks remain focused on negotiating a "political transition" in the war-ravaged country, the UN mediator's office said ...
What Is the Two-State Solution?
The idea of a Palestinian state existing alongside Israel has been the basis of decades of international efforts to end ...
Chinese, US Aircraft In ‘unsafe’ Encounter Over South China Sea
A Chinese military aircraft had an "unsafe" encounter with a US Navy surveillance aircraft near a contested reef in the ...