President Mahmoud Abbas and George Mitchell the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, discuss stalled talks in night-time phone conversation. U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian...

United States President Barack Obama has presented to Egypt and Israel a plan for a two-state solution to be finalized within two years, the London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. A source in Cairo told the newspaper that Obama raised the...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that Israel's Mossad espionage agency was behind the 2008 assassination of the Lebanese militant group's deputy leader Imad Mughniyah. The reclusive Nasrallah said this was the conclusion of an investigation...

Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying Tuesday, in her first remarks at the State Department. Reuters quoted her as telling press, "The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which...