Israel is wrapping up preparations to release 550 Palestinian prisoners in the final phase of a swap with Hamas militants.
Syria’s under-fire president has appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime.
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/ 14 October 2011
Israeli and Hamas officials have agreed on a prisoner-swap deal to secure the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
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/ 23 September 2011
As the Palestinian bid for statehood comes to a head at the United Nations, Hamas remains split on whether to support the controversial move.
<b>Nour Ali</b> reports on an uprising that led to perhaps the biggest act of violence in modern Middle Eastern history.
After four years of turbulent rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant group Hamas is weighing up a new strategy.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he would uproot settlements in a "generous" peace deal with Palestinians, but ruled out a return to 1967 borders.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal buried the hatchet at a Cairo reconciliation ceremony on Wednesday.
A surprise deal to end decades of rivalry between Fatah and Hamas was on Thursday welcomed by the Palestinian leadership, but denounced by Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and its bitter rival, Hamas, struck a deal on Wednesday to form an interim unity government.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he was ready to go to Gaza and broker a unity deal with the Islamist Hamas movement.
Leaked papers on Palestinian-Israeli peace talks reveal the hand of British intelligence.
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/ 25 December 2010
Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, wounding at least two people, officials and witnesses said.
A senior Israeli intelligence official has warned of the dangers of renewed attacks on Israel by Hamas militants based in the West Bank.
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/ 3 September 2010
Militant groups in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday they had joined forces to step up attacks against Israel, possibly including suicide bombings.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Israel must accept the deployment of an international force in a future Palestinian state before talks can begin.
The captain of a Gaza-bound Libyan aid ship on Tuesday rejected an Israeli demand that it change course and dock in Egypt, mission organisers said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday defended the Gaza blockade and a raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Palestinian enclave.
Israel found itself isolated on the global stage on Tuesday as world leaders demanded a swift probe into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla was "inexcusable", Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu said on Monday.
Israel had hoped a row over the use of forged passports in the killing of a top Hamas militant in Dubai was over.
Interpol on Monday issued arrest notices for 16 further suspects wanted by Dubai for the killing of a Hamas leader there.
Dozens of people were injured in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Jerusalem on Friday, as tension over land and holy sites mounted.
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/ 25 February 2010
Israel came under fresh pressure on Thursday as Australia became the latest country seeking answers over the killing of a top Hamas militant.
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/ 19 February 2010
Israel on Friday shrugged off calls for its top spy to be arrested over the killing of a Hamas commander.
Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.
Gaza’s Hamas rulers have suffered back-to-back setbacks with Israel’s successful test of a rocket shield and Egypt’s push to block smuggling tunnels.
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/ 24 November 2009
An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that a deal with Hamas to swap a Gaza-held soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close".
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/ 23 November 2009
Israel has softened its terms for a prisoner swap with Hamas, officials said on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2009
Hamas on Thursday asked for more time to consider a unity deal and demanded that it include a clause on the right to resist Israeli occupation.
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/ 12 October 2009
Palestinian authorities have begun a rare military trial of security officers accused of torturing a Hamas suspect to death.
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/ 29 September 2009
A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East has reached ”crisis point”, a UN human rights investigator said on Tuesday.