Egypt tried to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, but Hamas militants bulldozed a new opening in a border wall and riot police failed to stem...
As if on cue, firecrackers, echoing like gunshots, crackled in the distance as Benjamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister and leader of the opposition Likud party, held forth on the...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, promoting a new diplomatic initiative by Washington, held talks with Israeli leaders Wednesday after obtaining a public pledge from Saudi Arabia to consider attending a...
Khulud al-Masri, a deputy mayor of this Palestinian city, doesn't go to work at city hall anymore. A city councilor representing Hamas, she was ordered out of her office by...
The Bush administration and its partners in the foundering Middle East peace process will take a chance that the earnestness, eloquence, energy and international prestige of British Prime Minister Tony...
The ballgame began with the national anthem: the Israeli one, sung by an aspiring singer on the pitcher's mound. Israeli television announcers, broadcasting live on the national sports channel, juggled...
A night after picking up a point on the bottom-feeding Los Angeles Kings, the Blackhawks had to crane their necks to look up at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. They...
In a town where careers hang on a single audition, the Blackhawks-Kings game Thursday was pure Hollywood. Having jettisoned a number of veterans in recent weeks, both teams are using...
Mustafa Barghouti leaned forward, drawing a diagram that illustrated the challenges he has faced while trying to mediate talks between Hamas and Fatah, the rival Palestinian factions that have been...
Israel agreed late Sunday to suspend aerial attacks in southern Lebanon for up to 48 hours after one of its air strikes killed more than 50 civilians, most of them...