Israel has extended a lockdown on the occupied West Bank and restricted access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as tensions continue over its plans to build new homes for Jewish settlers in mainly Arab east Jerusalem
The Israeli military has indicted two of its soldiers for endangering the life of a Palestinian boy during the three-week war in Gaza more than a year ago....
Israel and Syria have announced ambitions to develop nuclear power plants to meet their energy needs...
Joe Biden, the US vice-president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, have held talks over the perceived threat posed by Iran and on reviving the Middle East peace process....
Arab states have agreed to a US proposal for indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks, the Arab League secretary-general has said....
The head of the Dubai police is planning to seek the arrest of the prime minister of Israel and the head of the country's secret service, Mossad, over the killing of a Hamas leader...
Russia has said it is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme as the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog says he cannot verify that all of Tehran's atomic activities are peaceful....
An al-Qaeda double agent who killed seven American intelligence operatives in a suicide attack on a base in Afghanistan has appeared in a video calling for a "jihad" against Jordan....
Most of the 26 people so far linked to the murder of a top Hamas commander are to be found in Israel, Agence France-Presse cited Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan as charging in comments published on Saturday....
An alleged member of a Sunni Muslim group fighting the Iranian government has said in a televised confession that his group received help from the United States.
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