Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week....

Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week....

The Bangladesh government is coming under increasing pressures from its own ministers and ruling Awami League lawmakers to hold urgent bilateral talks with India, which is planning to build a dam on the Barak river the two neighbours share, a media report here said...

Political tension in Iran following a tumultuous election ratcheted up a notch when a top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a US agent and accused him of...

Bahraini officials visited Israel in an official capacity for the first time on Friday to collect five of their nationals Israel was deporting, a Bahraini news report and an Israeli official...

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip,...

Recently appointed ambassador to the United States Michael Oren warned over the weekend that an Iranian atomic bomb can "wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds," and that the Iranians could...

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she will resign from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would...

U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated his call for Israel and the Palestinians to fulfill their obligations toward achieving peace in a letter sent to the king of Morocco, Channel 10 reported....

A top aide of Iran's supreme leader has called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation.Prominent hardliner Hossein Shariatmadari...

A 16-year-old boy died overnight in Ashdod from multiple stab wounds sustained during an altercation, police suspected. The boy's father found him in a pool of his own blood at approximately 2:00...

Police began an investigation into a suspected murder in Ashdod early Saturday morning, when a 16-year-old boy found bleeding on a street in the city died of his wounds in Rehovot's Kaplan...

North Korea test-fired four missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, in what was likely to be seen as a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day holiday.The...

JERUSALEM: An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defence sources said yesterday, describing the unusual manoeuvre as a show of strategic reach...

Now that the media frenzy over Michael Jackson's death has begun to die down and the stardust has somewhat settled, we might begin to contemplate how he will go down in...

North Korea reportedly test-fired two Scud-type missiles off its eastern on Saturday morning, according to a report from South Korean official news agency...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy will hold a second meeting in a week with Israel's defence minister, an Israeli official said on Friday, announcing talks on Monday likely to...

British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in "atrocious conditions" in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza...

JERUSALEM — Defence Minister Ehud Barak yesterday said Israel would consider a limited moratorium on new construction in Jewish settlements, linking the step to US efforts to bring Arab states into...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered American assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political...

Bar Refaeli, Israel's most famous model, has stripped off for a video filmed in her native country.The black and white clip is part of a promotion for an art...

MANAMA: An official Bahrain delegation travelled to Israel on an unprecedented trip to recover a group of nationals held by the Jewish state, the state news agency reported on...

WARSAW — Israel has pledged to pay compensation for material damage it caused by shelling UN property during its Gaza offensive more than six months ago, a UN official said yesterday. A UN inquiry...

Israel's Defense Ministry has recommended a partial lifting of the embargo on the Gaza Strip as a goodwill gesture toward the Palestinians to spur talks to free a long-held captive soldier, an...

Aircraft carrying weaponry for Hizbullah arrive in Beirut fairly frequently. Some of them originate in Iran and Syria, its main suppliers of weapons; others come directly from Eastern European...

Occupied Jerusalem: An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defence sources said yesterday, describing the unusual manoeuvre as a show of...

Cynthia McKinney was captured by Israeli forces aboard a relief boat en route to Gaza.Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remain in an Israeli prison after...

An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defense sources said on Friday, as an Israeli minister warned against the expanding population of Arab...

There is no concrete evidence that Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, incoming International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said Friday, in his first public comments on Iran's...

ARAVA DESERT, Israel --An Israeli company has launched a first-of-its-kind hybrid solar power station. It is capable of producing what the company calls Green Power 24-7. For years, Israel has made...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak (R) smiles during a meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell at the InterContinental Hotel in New York June 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Jamie...

An 84-year-old Israeli man who had been pronounced dead by paramedics shocked emergency personnel and police officers Wednesday when he came back to...

By Peter GraffSORKHDOZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of British troops have seized key canal crossings in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, military officials said on Friday, part of...

The European Union on Friday summoned Iranian ambassadors across the 27-nation bloc in a joint protest against the detentions of staff at the British Embassy in Tehran.A top Iranian cleric had said...

MONTREAL, July 3 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of two journalists employed by the Qatar-based satellite TV station Al Jazeera, who were aboard the "Spirit of...

JERUSALEM — Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of...

STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA, KAOHSIUNG Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 20 The 2009 World Games Kaohsiung Organizing Committee (KOC) said on Thursday that for security reasons, the committee would arrange...

Israel's new right-wing government is about to complete its first 100 days in power, a period marked by tension with Washington over how to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. But the...

Michael Jackson last March. Lucky his cardiologist wasn’t Jewish Photo: AP That probably marks me as hopelessly out of sync with most of humanity - to judge by the media-hyped hysteria about...

A Palestinian woman inspects her damaged house in the central Gaza Strip Amnesty International said Israel inflicted wanton destruction in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian...

In the current hullabaloo surrounding settlement construction, one side issue forced center stage is whether the US and Israel ever had tacit agreements on the...

The European Union decided Friday to summon Iranian ambassadors across the 27-nation bloc in a joint protest against the detentions of staff at the British Embassy in...

John Demjanjuk is fit to stand trial for allegedly serving as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at the Sobibor death camp during the Holocaust, German doctors have...

Hospital: Took place at El Marej refugee camp east of Gaza City Israel: Tank fired across border in retaliation to mortars fired at Israeli border patrol Report attacks Israeli and Palestinian...

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- An Israeli defense firm has become a major contractorin a U.S. military project. Israel's Plasan Sasa has been designated a leading subcontractor in theMRAP All Terrain Vehicles...

Column One: Israel's democratic challenge Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 3, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443708031&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull It works out that retired...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's performance during his first 100 days on the job has satisfied less than half of the population, according to an opinion poll published on...

The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported...

(IsraelNN.com) Arab intransigence and the realization that Iran nukes might be more important than Jewish houses are leading the Obama administration to a slight shift in...

What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it...