Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to make an historic two-day visit to Lebanon Oct. 13-14 . Read Full Story »
Palestinian fighters fired a mortar round from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday narrowly missing a kindergarten in a kibbutz in southern Israel, the military said. Read Full Story »
An Iraqi soldier opened fire and killed two American troops on Tuesday. Read Full Story »
A French peacekeeper died on Tuesday when his vehicle toppled near the southern Lebanese border town of Kfarshouba Read Full Story »
A prominent Iraqi state television anchorman was shot dead on Tuesday as he was driving in the capital, Read Full Story »
The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) threatened to quit. Read Full Story »
PALESTINIAN ARENA
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The Free Palestine Movement intends to dispatch an aid plane to the Gaza Strip in order to break Israel's air and sea blockade -
Israel's foreign minister on Monday was quoted by the army radio as saying he believes that peace with the Palestinians is unattainable in a year or "during the next generation". -
Israeli warplanes launched three raids against the southern Gaza Strip, killing one, injuring three and leaving one more missing. -
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Thursday to produce a framework for a permanent peace agreement and to hold a second round of direct talks later this month -
The Middle East direct peace talks were resumed on Thursday in a ceremony held at the White House.
CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for "outside the box" thinking to reach a settlement in the Middle East issue and promised a "historic compromise" . -
Iran, which has been speaking about the near demise of Israel, has set a time limit for the existance ofthe Jewish state. -
On the occasion of Jerusalem Day, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine. -
Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported on Tuesday that Hamas has carried out in the last few days a series of tests for an advanced "Fajr" rocket -
The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party has wished death for all Palestinians, including acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas.
DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ
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Five suicide bombers killed 12 people on Sunday at an Iraqi army complex, the military said. -
Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years. -
Iraqia List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced on Monday it would not participate in any new Iraqi government headed by current Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki. -
A series of other car bomb attacks in five other towns and cities raised the nationwide toll to at least 46 -
American soldiers numbers in Iraq fell below the 50,000 mark on Tuesday.
LEBANON & SYRIA
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Jordan's King Abdullah II met in Damascus on Monday for talks on the resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians -
Saad Hariri has admitted that his bloc had unfairly rushed to accuse Syria of assassinating his father and that false witnesses had misled the investigation into the 2005 assassination. -
A Lebanese Shiite cleric known as a critic of Hizbullah has been arrested in Syria on suspicion of spying for Israel, a senior Lebanese security official said on Thursday. -
Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue an arrest warrant against a Lebanese ex-general suspecting of working for the Israeli intelligence -
Kuwait's al Rai newspaper reported on Monday that Hizbullah concluded "field understandings" with the Syrian army
REGIONAL NEWS
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Egypt's general prosecutor stated on Monday he had referred 11 officials from the Culture Ministry to a Cairo court . -
Bahrain has accused 23 Shiite activists of forming a "terror network" aimed at toppling the Gulf kingdom's government, the official BNA news agency said. -
Posters supporting Egypt's spy chief as a candidate in next year's presidential election were removed from Cairo's streets hours after they appeared. -
A jumbo jet belonging to US courier United Parcel Services crashed on Friday evening near Dubai airport, killing both crew members, civil aviation officials said. -
Kuwait intendss to purchase Patriot missiles from the United States but will not allow its territory to be a launchpad for attacks
THE IRANIAN FILE
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Iran is not cooperating with an investigation into its nuclear works by vetoing the nomination of certain United Nations inspectors, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday. -
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out an attack on his country over its nuclear plan, during a visit to Qatar on Sunday, because any such action would result in Israel's destruction. -
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel -
Egypt said Thursday it has postponed a visit to Cairo by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki following his attack on the role of some Arab leaders in facilitating Middle East peace talks. -
Iran will need two additional weeks to complete the process of loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant, nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said.
WAR ON TERROR
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An Algerian security official on Wednesday said a suicide bombing attack on a military convoy in the north of the country killed at least four people and injured 20. -
Security sources said that the Algerian army killed 10 gunmen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -
Eight Yemeni trooops and a civilian were killed on Saturday in an attack by Al-Qaeda gunmen on an army post in the southern province of Abyan -
Al-Qaeda fighters were fleeing the embattled city of Loder in southern Yemen following clashes with government forces in which dozens have died. -
Morocco has recently broken up a "terrorist" cell which included 18 members.
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