An Arab-Israeli shopkeeper is locked in a Byzantine battle with the Coptic Church over an ancient Jerusalem cellar, in a saga involving Christianity's ...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas stood by his demand for a complete Israeli settlement freeze in an address on Wednesday to tens of thousands ...
5 years after Arafat's death, path to statehood dim for divided Palestinians The tens of thousands of Palestinians who thronged Yasser Arafat's grave Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death had a lot more to mourn than just their late ...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas stood by his demand for a complete Israeli settlement freeze on Wednesday as he addressed tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered to honour Yasser Arafat. The fifth anniversary of the iconic leader's death finds Palestinians more divided than ...
Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered Wednesday to honour their iconic leader Yasser Arafat, with president Mahmud Abbas due to address the rally amid a brewing political crisis. The fifth anniversary of Arafat's death finds Palestinians more divided than ever and his ...
The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza has banned all public commemoration of Yasser Arafat's death this year, officials with the rival secular Fatah group said on Tuesday. Wednesday will mark five years since Arafat, the revered Palestinian leader and founder of Fatah, ...
Israel on Thursday marked the 14th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of a Jewish extremist opposed to peace with the Palestinians. "Yitzhak's greatness was in his honesty as a leader, both in war and peace," ...
Prize is more about what we expect from him than about what heÕs done Some would say the decision was dynamite. Many others would say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama was explosive. Whatever the adjective used ...
Israeli President Shimon Peres fainted during a conference in Tel Aviv late Saturday but quickly regained consciousness, medics said. The 86-year-old Nobel laureate was taken to the Tel Hashomer hospital for tests following his collapse. His personal physician, Rafi Valdan, told the ...
A look at some of the newly elected Fatah leaders A look at some of the main figures elected to the 23-member Central Committee of the Western-backed Fatah organization. ___ Marwan Barghouti, 50, a prominent leader of the last Palestinian uprising, is ...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party has overhauled its leadership, electing a raft of new members to its ruling body in its first election in 20 years, a party official said Tuesday. The party congress returned only three incumbent members of the ...
Fatah members were on Friday preparing their first leadership election for 20 years, hoping to breathe new life into the secular Palestinian party weakened by infighting, mismanagement and a trouncing by the Islamist Hamas movement. Delegates to the party's congress in the ...
