North Sudan will not withdraw from the disputed Abyei border region it seized over the weekend as the area belongs to the north, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Tuesday.
Three Israeli residents of Gush Etzion were killed Tuesday evening when their vehicle slammed into a truck driven by an Arab.
An explosion at an oil refinery in Iran during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday killed two people and injured 12, the Mehr news agency said.
U.S. President Obama’s new positions regarding Israel and the Palestinian Authority have earned the ire, and strong criticism, of some leading analysts and opinion-formulators. A selection:
The European Union imposed sanctions Monday on Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, because of the continuing violence against anti-government protesters in which more than 900 people are reported to have been killed.
Canada refuses to join the United States in calling for Israel to return to 1949 Armistice borders, the Ottawa Globe and Mail reported Monday.
The United States State Department is standing behind the wording of an official statement that implied that Jerusalem – including its western parts - is not a part of Israel.
The Egyptian chosen to become the interim chief of the international Al Qaeda terrorist organization has been linked to the murder of Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face charges of incitement in connection with the killing of protesters during the “Arab Spring†revolution that ended his 31-year reign in early February.
The vibrations of U.S. President Barack Obama’s “hallowing†of the June 4, 1967 borders in two speeches this past week have not yet stilled, and Hamas has already said that actually, it would prefer negotiating based on the May 13, 1948 borders.