JERUSALEM: After the death of their spiritual leader, more than 2,000 Egyptian Copts have poured into the Holy Land for the Easter holidays, defying a ban he imposed on visiting Jerusalem and other Israeli-controlled areas.
The influx — after (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces in riot gear prepared Friday for Palestinian and Arab demonstrations, deploying at traditional flashpoints and along Israel's frontiers and confining West Bank Palestinians to their territory.
By midday, minor (...)
JERUSALEM: In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held (...)
GAZA CITY: Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps.
Hamas, which had (...)
BIDDU, West Bank (AP) - Ahmad Ayyash once had a construction job in Israel, earning good money. Now he is a goat herder struggling to eke out a living, barred from working in Israel and restricted from entering his olive grove next to this West Bank (...)
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official says the attack on his country's embassy in Egypt is a "grave violation" of diplomatic norms and a "blow to peaceful relations" between the two countries.
The official says all the embassy staff except the (...)
CAIRO — The storming of the Israeli embassy by a mob of Egyptian protesters inflicted a "severe injury to the fabric of peace" between the two countries, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday.
The ambassador and the entire (...)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A budding middle class in the impoverished Gaza Strip is flaunting its wealth, sipping coffee at gleaming new cafes, shopping for shoes at the new tiny shopping malls, and fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grass roots (...)
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis, living in an island of relative freedom and comfort and surrounded by countries they generally view with disdain, are not accustomed to taking their cues from Arabs.
So the idea that the eruption of a mass movement (...)
AL-SOUDANIA, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza Strip's first five-star hotel gleams with marble floors, five luxury restaurants and a breezy cafe overlooking the territory's white sandy beaches and sparkling blue Mediterranean Sea. The only thing missing (...)
JERUSALEM: Over the past five years, Israel's military has detained more than 800 Palestinian youths and children for pelting rocks at Israelis soldiers, and has interrogated and jailed many of them, a rights group said in a report released (...)
BEIRUT: Syria accused the United States of inciting unrest on Friday, saying the US ambassador's unauthorized trip to the flashpoint city of Hama proved Washington has a hand in a four-month uprising seeking to topple the country's autocratic (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan government forces have pounded the outskirts of the rebel-held city of Misrata, killing at least 22 people, a hospital physician said.
The doctor at Hikma Hospital, who would only give his first name, Ayman, said (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The young woman police officer swaggers through a crumbling Tripoli slum, her dark hair cut boyishly short, an empty gun holster and walkie-talkie hanging from her police belt. A tattooed man with a cigarette dangling from his (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Weary and frustrated, the women had been lined up for days in their dust-covered cars waiting to fill up at Tripoli's women-only gas station. A scowling female soldier kept order with the help of a few dozen male (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's government is pushing a cease-fire proposal and has for the first time said it's prepared to speak with its rebel adversaries, signaling that months of fighting and NATO bombardment may be closer to forcing some (...)
TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi shelled villages and towns to try to take control of the high ground in a western mountain range as NATO widened its campaign of bombings and leafleting to persuade government troops to stop (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - NATO aircraft have blasted an oil terminal in a key eastern city in a nightfall strike, Libyan TV reported, after Britain urged the alliance to widen its assault on areas controlled by ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
Libya's deputy (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP): Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi's forces on a deadlocked front line in eastern Libya, and NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks.
Overnight, NATO warplanes struck at (...)
CAIRO: A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site (...)
CAIRO: The Syrian military has intensified its vigorous assault on the besieged city at the center of the country's uprising as defiant residents, who have been pinned down in their homes for nearly a week struggled to find food, pass along (...)
CAIRO: Syrian forces heaped more punishment Tuesday on residents of restive towns, detaining hundreds in raids or at checkpoints, firing on people trying to retrieve the bodies of anti-government protesters and even shooting holes in rooftop water (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Libyans who have fled civil war in their homeland now live in limbo in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, worried about relatives left behind, struggling as money runs out and wondering if they'll ever be able to go home.
Some (...)
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia's king promised a multibillion dollar package of reforms, raises, cash, loans and apartments on Friday in what appeared to be the Arab world's most expensive attempt to appease residents inspired by the unrest that has swept two (...)
TOBRUK: Outnumbered and outgunned, Libyan rebels lost control of their last town west of Tripoli on Tuesday and struggled to stall or outrun Moammar Gadhafi's forces as they raced eastward. With a punishing blockade, air strikes and long-range (...)