Jerusalem (Israel)

Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo

2013-05-18 18:45:00

MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...

Syria rejects Turkish accusations in deadly bombings

2013-05-12 18:48:00

BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday rejected Turkish charges that Damascus was behind a pair of devastating car bomb attacks in southern Turkey that killed 46 people and left scores injured. The bombings provided a worrisome indication of how the civil war...

Israeli attacks in Syria aimed at Hezbollah, not as aid to rebels

2013-05-08 05:00:00

Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Iranian weapons destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could be seen as heralding wider international involvement in Syria’s intractable civil war. Reports �of sarin gas attacks in Syria also conjure the...

Palestinian inmate ends hunger strike

2013-04-23 12:46:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian inmate ended a prolonged hunger strike Tuesday after reaching a deal with Israeli military prosecutors for early release, his lawyer and family said. Samer Issawi, whose fast helped fuel weeks of protests in the...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, 82, dies

2013-03-22 08:44:00

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa -- Acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote “Things Fall Apart,” died Friday after a brief illness. He was 82. Achebe, often called the father of African literature, was best known for “Things Fall...

Egypt allows showing of 'Jews of Egypt' documentary

2013-03-22 11:21:00

CAIRO – The battle between censors and filmmakers over�"Jews of Egypt" ended this week when authorities granted permission for the documentary to be shown despite fears it may agitate Egypt’s anti-Israeli hatred amid months of political unrest...

Italian marines return to India to face murder charges

2013-03-22 10:44:00

NEW DELHI – Two Italian marines who had been refusing to return to India to stand trial for murder were flown back to New Delhi on Friday evening, ending a diplomatic standoff that threatened to derail relations between the two nations and test...

Syrians on both sides of conflict condemn killing of cleric

2013-03-22 08:08:00

BEIRUT — Both sides in the Syrian conflict on Friday denounced the killing of an esteemed Sunni Muslim cleric and prominent supporter of President Bashar Assad in what authorities called a suicide bombing that left scores dead at a Damascus mosque....

Obama defends U.S. approach to Syrian conflict

2013-03-22 13:04:00

AMMAN, Jordan — Standing less than 100 miles from the Syrian border, President Obama on Friday defended his administration’s reluctance to use U.S. military force to quell the civil war in that country, saying experience has shown that slow...

Obama's symbolic mission to Israel: Accomplished

2013-03-22 02:00:00

Barack Obama’s first trip to Israel as president seems to have thawed his frosty relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at least for public consumption. But it appears to have done little to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, curb...

Alleged chemical attack in Syria remains a mystery

2013-03-21 10:46:00

BEIRUT — The strange case of an alleged chemical attack in Syria has taken some odd turns. Like so many other mass-casualty attacks in Syria, the alleged poison-gas strike Tuesday in northern Syria has become a case of each side in the conflict...

Obama speechwriter shapes policy with his pen

2013-03-19 03:00:00

WASHINGTON -- One of Ben Rhodes’ first tasks when he followed Barack Obama to the White House in 2009 was to help craft the presidential speech, delivered in Cairo, that urged a restart of Mideast peace talks, called America’s alliance with...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.

2013-05-19 09:15:43

Israeli riot police arrest an ultra-Orthodox demonstrator on May 16, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Tens of Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have clashed with police after gathering to protest against newly proposed government legislation that would see them drafted into the military.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

For many Christians, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built upon on the place where Jesus was crucified and resurrected, is the holiest of churches and the highlight of their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

2013-05-05 17:39:21