Middle Orient

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday that failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians could threaten Israel’s long-term survival.

Israel killed four Hamas fighters in two air strikes in the south of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Hamas officials and Palestinian medical staff said.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was sworn in for a second term on Thursday, but this time as a civilian leader a day after quitting as army chief and fulfilling a promise many Pakistanis doubted he would keep.

A roadside bomb killed five Pakistani soldiers on Thursday in a tribal region on the Afghan border where the army has been battling to subdue Islamist rebels, a military spokesman said.

Pakistani lawyers protesting against President Pervez Musharraf clashed with police in the city of Lahore on Thursday, as Musharraf was being sworn in for a new term in the capital.

Iraq is to give Jordan $8 million to help its smaller neighbor pay the costs of sheltering hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees, the ambassador to

As the Annapolis peace conference — or forum, as US officials are now calling it — kicked off Tuesday, the chief missive was to lower expectations, that this was not

US President George  W. Bush on Tuesday used a Middle East peace conference to warn Syria’s government against interfering in

Opposition leader MP Michel Aoun held a series of meetings on Tuesday with other Christian political figures that focused on the political

Palestinian police killed one man in the West Bank on Tuesday as it broke up rallies against a US peace meeting, while Hamas supporters in Gaza rallied in force against the conference.