The Egyptian president has denounced the Israeli attack and recalled Cairo’s ambassador to Tel Aviv. But Mubarak did as much in the past. Will the Muslim Brotherhood do more?

(BAGHDAD) — The lawyer for a Hizballah commander wanted by the United States says his client has been released from Iraqi custody and has been flown to the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Lawyer Abdul-Mahdi al-Mitairi says Ali Mussa Daqduq was released on Friday from house arrest in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The lawyer did not provide f …

(GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip) — Egypt’s prime minister rushed to the aid of the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers Friday in the midst of an Israeli offensive there, calling for an end to the operation. Palestinian militants took advantage of …

Iran’s official news agency says authorities have arrested suspects on charges of planting bombs and sabotaging energy facilities. It says they were tied to Arab and Western intelligence agencies.

Israel will suspend its offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday during a brief visit by Egypt’s premier there if militants refrain from firing rockets at Israel, an official said, the first possible break in the escalating conflict.

The drums of war are pounding across Israel and the Gaza Strip following Israel’s targeted killing of Ahmed Jabari, commander of the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist group in control in Gaza. As Israeli air strikes have killed …

As the Benghazi episode takes center stage in Washington, questions loom over why the Libyans have bungled the investigation

Israel claims to have destroyed the missiles of Hamas they feared most–or at least the ones they know of. But the assault on the Palestinian coastal enclave may go on for weeks.

Israeli aircraft pummeled rocket launching operations of Gaza militants on Friday, and as troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers massed near the Palestinian territory, signaling a ground invasion might be growing near.

(CAIRO) — Egypt asked the United States to push Israel to stop its offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, warning that the violence could “escalate out of control,” the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

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Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed three Israelis on Thursday in a rocket attack likely to deepen a bruising Israeli air, naval and artillery offensive against Palestinian rocket squads.