Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Friday joined those condemning Israel's announced construction of roughly 3,300 new housing units in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. “Israel's move to establish settlements, which clearly violates international law and harms the vision of a two-state solution, is unacceptable,” said a Foreign Ministry statement quoted by the Today’s Zaman daily.
President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, hinted on Friday that the United States was sending weapons to the Syrian rebels, when she said Washington was taking important steps in Syria by offering both "lethal and non-lethal" aid to the moderate opposition. The comments were made in an interview Rice gave to CNN.
Pope Francis on Sunday told the Israeli and Palestinian presidents that they “must respond” to their people’s desire for peace in the Middle East and to obtain “the strength to persevere undaunted in dialogue,” Reuters reported. The pope made his appeal to Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas at the end of an unprecedented prayer
For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Francis issued the invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit last
Egyptian security forces arrested six terrorists who had planned to attack newly elected President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's entourage after his swearing-in ceremony next Sunday. The arrest was reported in the Egyptian paper Al-Watan, which added that diagrams of the new president's palaces and paths of how to enter them were found in the possession
Leftist MKs, the EU, and the US have encouraged Israel to work with the new Palestinian Authority (PA) "unity" government, claiming cooperation is the "only way" to end the Israeli-Arab conflict. Husam Badran, a senior Hamas official, disproved this on Thursday, stating that the "Palestinian people" still openly support terrorism. The official explained
The unity government founded between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and terrorist group Hamas on Monday is hitting early snags, as brawls broke out in Gaza on Thursday over the payment of employees of the two groups, leading to the closure of banks. Hamas violently took control of Gaza in 2007, and began cracking down
The Palestinian Authority has reacted to the announcement of 1,500 building tenders in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem by demanding that Washington take "serious steps" against Israel Thursday. "It is time for the American administration to take serious steps against what the government of Israel is doing," Nimr Hammad, an adviser to president Mahmud Abbas,
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday urged the Muslim and Arab world to rush to the defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, accusing “the Zionist interlopers,” as he put it, of planning to destroy it. In what Israeli officials were calling a serious case of incitement by Abbas against Israel and the Jewish people,
Canadian Salman Ashrafi has been identified as the suicide bomber who participated in an attack in Iraq in November 2013. Some 40 people were killed in the attack. The attack included two vehicles, one of which exploded outside the Iraqi army base in Tarmiyah, and a second one that entered the compound and exploded inside,
