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  • Palestinian National Authority(PA) & Hamas Clash Over Resistance Operations

    HIGHLIGHTS: Hamas Says Attacks Will Continue||PA Accuses Hamas of Timing Bombings to Serve Its Own Ends|| Yassin accuses Israel of Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Civilians, Especially children||STORY: A senior Palestinian official called on armed groups fighting Israeli occupation to limit their operations to the territories the Jewish state occupied.. More

  • Israel Postpones Gaza Offensive

    HIGHLIGHTS: Report Neither Confirmed Nor Denied||Palestinian Resistance Ready to Defend Gaza||Heavy Casualties on Both Sides Expected||STORY: Though tanks and troops were massed around Gaza's borders, Israel TV's Channel 2 reported Friday that Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer decided to postpone the new operation because of leaks about the army's.. More

  • Israeli forces leave Bethlehem

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Police Now in Control in Bethlehem||Washington & Russia Welcome End of Siege||Saud Al-Faisal Sees 'a Ray of Light' in Proactive Washington Stance||(Read: 'Exiles' Future Murky' at [IN THE PRESS] Channel)||STORY: Israeli jeeps and armored vehicles drove away from Manger Square Friday afternoon, marking the beginning of a troop.. More

  • Mussa: Bombing Attacks Stop When Occupation Ends

    HIGHLIGHTS: USA & Arabs Have Alternating Roles||Nine Arab Foreign Ministers Discuss Saudi Initiative in Cairo||Mideast Conference Possible Only After Israeli Withdrawal From Palestinian Territories||STORY: Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said that Arab nations were ready to offer Israel a "total ceasefire" in exchange for its withdrawal from.. More

  • Israeli Police say four settlers planned to kill Palestinians in Jerusalem arrested

    Jerusalem district police and the Shin Bet security service detained four settlers on suspicion of planning mass terror attacks against Palestinian residents of A-Tur and in East Jerusalem. Two of those held were arrested some two weeks ago as they were apparently planting a bomb near a hospital in East Jerusalem. Officers from a nearby police station,.. More

  • Palestinians Leave Nativity Church

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinian Resistance Men Leave Church Waving V-Signs|| Arduous Negotiations Characterized the Effort to Defuse the Standoff||Amongst the 13 Exiles is Bethlehem Intelligence Chief Abdullah Daoud,||Hamas & FATAH Criticize Arafat for Accepting Deal||STORY: Palestinian Resistance men, walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Friday, marking.. More

  • Israeli Tanks Poised Near Gaza Strip

    HIGHLIGHTS: Palestinians Arrest 16 Hamas Members||International Concern that Israel's Gaza Offensive Could Lead to More Bloodshed||Fighting in Densely Populated Gaza More Complicated & Could Expose Occupation Troops for Deadly Resistance Attacks||STORY: Tanks were poised outside the Gaza Strip and Israel called up military reservists Thursday ahead.. More

  • Women Vote in Bahrain for First Time

    HIGHLIGHTS: No Women Were Elected||22 Seats Go to a Runoff||Vote, Part of a Process to Transform Nation From Emirate to a Constitutional Monarchy||STORY: Voters cast ballots Thursday in Bahrain's first election for representative bodies in nearly 30 years - another step in the Gulf nation's transformation from absolute monarchy to democracy, and the.. More

  • Israel Calls Up Reservists; Exiles to Cyprus

    Israel called up reservists on Thursday and Palestinians steeled themselves for possible attack after the Israeli government gave the army the go-ahead to hit back for a Resistance bombing this week. Israel gave no word on when or where it might launch any action, but Palestinian leaders urged it to avoid a strong response such as its recent devastating.. More

  • Bethlehem Deal Unravels; 30 Hamas Arrests in Gaza

    Plans to end the five-week stand-off at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity have hit last-minute snags, after the release of most of those trapped inside had appeared imminentFinal arrangements were being made to take away a group of Palestinian militants, after which civilians inside the church - which is surrounded by Israeli forces - would have been.. More

  • 20 Killed in Dagestan Explosion

    At least 20 people have been killed by an explosion in the town of Kaspiysk in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, officials say. The blast ripped through the main square of the town in the region bordering . Local police said at least 100 people were injured in the explosion, which happened during a parade marking Russia's Victory Day. Initial.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Enter Gaza

    Israeli occupation forces have entered Gaza in what appears to be phase one of a wide scale military offensive in retaliation to Wednesday Palestinian Resistance bombing which killed 16 Israelis in a billiard club near Tel Aviv. Israeli Palestinian sources said that 20 Israeli Tanks accompanied by a number of bulldozers went into Rafah in southern Gaza... More

  • Israeli US-Made F-16s Fly Low Over Gaza

    HIGHLIGHTS: Mass Troop Movements Towards Gaza||Resistance Men Patrol Streets||Negotiations Have Led Palestinians Nowhere, Says Resistance Leaders||STORY: In the Gaza Strip, there is a growing sense of unease that Israel might respond to the latest Palestinian attacks by launching a military campaign against targets in Gaza. Soon after news of the second.. More

  • U.S. Sanctions on Chinese Firms over Iran

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Underscoring growing concerns about Iran, the Bush administration has decided to impose new sanctions on Chinese, Armenian and Moldovan companies accused of aiding Tehran's alleged weapons of mass destruction programmes, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. He told Reuters the U.S. Congress would be formally notified soon.. More

  • Muddy Waters Getting Muddier in The Middle East

    HEIGHLIGHTS: Israel's Security Cabinet Gives Green Light to Sharon & Ben-Eliezer to Respond to Latest Palestinian Bombing||Idea of Expelling Arafat Raised|| Deal on Bethlehem Sealed as 26 Palestinians Prepare to Leave Church of Nativity||Hamas Promises More Attacks||Annan to Pile Jenin Report||STORY: The muddy waters that have engulfed the Middle East.. More