OVADIA YOSEF, RABBI AND ISRAELI KINGMAKER, DIES
By MARK LAVIE File – In this Dec. 5, 2002 file photo, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party…
Mahmoud Abbas
20 YEARS ON, OSLO ACCORDS PROMISE RINGS HOLLOW
By KARIN LAUB In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, a Palestinian man walks by a barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis, from east Jerusalem with…
EUROPEAN URGE US TO AWAIT UN REPORT ON SYRIA
By DEB RIECHMANN US Secretary of State John Kerry, centre, with aide Jason Meininger as he leaves a meeting with European Union Ministers of Foreign Affairs at the National Gallery…
PALESTINIAN MEETING WITH ISRAELI LAWMAKERS DELAYED
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prays during a meeting of the Fatah revolutionary council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Israeli and Palestinian officials said a…
PALESTINIANS CALL OFF ROUND OF TALKS AFTER CLASH
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Palestinian mourners grieve while waiting for the funeral procession outside the morgue of the main hospital in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013.…
ISRAEL ADVANCES JERUSALEM HOUSING BEFORE TALKS
By IAN DEITCH A man holds a sign which reads, “Red week, the Israeli government releases twenty six murderers,” during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013,…
ISRAEL APPROVES NEARLY 1,200 NEW SETTLEMENT HOMES
By KARIN LAUB and DANIEL ESTRIN FILE – In this Sept. 20, 2010 aerial file photo, taken through the window of an airplane, the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel…
US: MIDEAST DEAL IN 9 MONTHS TARGET, NOT DEADLINE
A Palestinian villager works on his land that overlooks the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu, background, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Pressing ahead…