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Israel raises alarm over Islamist militants on its frontiers

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Israel's frontier with Syria, where militants have kidnapped 45 U.N. peacekeepers, has become a magnet for Islamist activity and Israel itself is...

End of Gaza war doesn’t translate into peace

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A week after the guns fell silent in the Gaza war, Israel and the Palestinians seem to have little appetite or incentive...

Syrian army, rebels fight on Golan where peacekeepers held

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Heavy fighting erupted on Monday between the Syrian army and Islamist rebels on the Golan Heights, where 44 peacekeepers from Fiji are...

U.N. says 43 Golan peacekeepers seized by militants, 81 trapped

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Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region,...

Gaza truce holding but Israel’s Netanyahu under fire at home

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An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a...

Militants, weapons transit Gaza tunnels despite Egyptian crackdown

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A third of the houses on the main street of this Bedouin town near Egypt's border with Gaza look derelict, but inside...

Gaza truce collapses, fighting erupts, Israel orders negotiators home

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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Tuesday, with Palestinian militants firing dozens of rockets at Israel and Israel launching air...

Israel, Palestinians renew truce but see risk of more Gaza violence

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The chief Palestinian delegate to truce talks with Israel warned on Tuesday that Gaza violence could erupt anew unless progress is made...

Renewed Gaza truce holds after rocky start

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A renewed truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to...

Truce crumbles as 40 killed in Gaza, rockets hit Israel

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A Gaza ceasefire crumbled only hours after it began on Friday, with at least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling and Israel...

Israel warns of long Gaza war as Palestinian fighters cross border

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A grim-faced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of a protracted war in Gaza, dashing any hopes of a swift...

Destroy Hamas? Something worse would follow – Pentagon intel chief

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A top Pentagon intelligence official warned on Saturday that the destruction of Hamas would only lead to something more dangerous taking its...

Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll...

Gaza bloodshed deepens as airlines shun Israel

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Gaza fighting raged on Wednesday, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts...

Gaza death toll tops 500 as U.S. steps up ceasefire efforts

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The United States, alarmed by escalating civilian bloodshed in an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, took a direct role in efforts...

Israel launches ground offensive in Gaza Strip

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Israel launched a Gaza ground campaign after 10 days of bombardments from the air and sea failed to stop militants' rocket attacks,...

Israeli strikes kill more Palestinians; rocket causes huge blaze in Israel

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Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed four more Palestinians before dawn on Friday, raising the death toll from the four day offensive...

Palestinian death toll rises to 77 as Israel hits Gaza over...

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At least 77 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants...

Israel launches military offensive against Gaza militants

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Israel launched an offensive against Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing some 50 targets, including homes, in a campaign...

Israel sends experts to help hunt for Nigerian schoolgirls

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Israel has sent intelligence experts to Nigeria to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group...

Israel offers to help Nigeria find abducted girls

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Israel offered Nigeria help on Sunday in locating 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram in an attack...

U.N. rights investigator accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’

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A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of "ethnic cleansing" in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt...

Israel sees future drone threat from Lebanon, Gaza

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Israel fears guerrillas in Lebanon and Gaza would deploy exploding drones against the Jewish state in a future war as well as...

No easy way out for African migrants in Israeli desert detention

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A compound of one-storey buildings deep in the southern Israeli desert is now home to some 400 African migrants who face the...

Israel grants asylum to two Eritreans amid migrant protests

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Israel has granted political asylum to two Eritreans, its Interior Ministry said on Sunday, amid protests by thousands of other African migrants...

Israel sends 150 protesting African runaways back to jail

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Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention center in protest against...

African migrants abandon Israeli detention center in protest march

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More than 100 African migrants have abandoned an "open" Israeli detention center to try to march on Jerusalem in protest at a...

Israel approves detention without charges for African migrants

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Israel's parliament has moved to ensure African migrants who enter the country illegally can be held without charge, despite a Supreme Court...

Israel fears negative impact from U.S. aid freeze on Egypt

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Israel struggled to hide its frustration on Thursday at a U.S. decision to withhold aid to Cairo, fearing the move could damage...

US, Israel to hold major missile defense exercise

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The United States and Israel will hold a major missile defense exercise in Israel this month, sending a message of close cooperation...

Six terrorists arrested in Sinai – Egyptian military source

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An Egyptian military source said on Friday that the armed forces had arrested six "terrorists" in the Sinai region, after an attack...

Armed Bedouins enter Sinai peace force camp

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Armed Bedouins have entered a military base used by international peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai region to pressure local authorities to release fellow...

Israel to buy M-346 trainers in US$1 billion deal

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Israel has chosen Finmeccanica's Alenia Aermacchi unit to supply 30 M-346 Master training jets for US$1 billion, the Israeli defence ministry said...

Stratfor: Iran, the US and the Strait of Hormuz crisis

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The United States reportedly sent a letter to Iran via multiple intermediaries last week warning Tehran that any attempt to close the...

Israeli strikes kill 3 in Gaza, rockets hit Israel

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Violence across the Israeli-Gaza border escalated today with Israeli air strikes killing at least three people and Palestinian militants firing rockets deep...

Establishing a peaceful Palestinian State next to Israel long overdue –...

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday led a chorus of United Nations officials in stressing the need for a just and lasting solution to...

Rockets fired across Lebanon, Israel border

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Several rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today, the first since 2009, prompting Israel to return fire, military officials said. Two buildings...

Israel to receive US$20 billion of US military aid over next...

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Israel is expected to increase defence expenditure by 5% over the next five years due to security threats in the region and...

Israel to help Kenya fight al Shabaab militia

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Israel is willing to help Kenya fight al Shabaab militia in Somalia, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office has said. The BBC says that...

Gaza violence simmers after truce announced

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Violence between Israel and Gaza militants flared anew Sunday after Egypt said it had brokered a truce to end attacks that have...

Israeli ex-soldier jailed for leaking secret papers

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An Israeli court sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison yesterday for leaking classified military documents to...

Abbas faults Arab refusal of 1947 U.N. Palestine plan

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Arabs made a "mistake" by rejecting a 1947 U.N. proposal that would have created a Palestinian state alongside the nascent Israel, Palestinian...

Peres defends Abbas after Israeli foreign minister’s attack

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Israeli President Shimon Peres came to the defence of Mahmoud Abbas after Israel's far-right foreign minister called the Palestinian president an obstacle...

Stratfor: From the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush – rethinking the...

The territory between the Mediterranean and the Hindu Kush has been the main arena for the U.S. intervention that followed the 9/11...

Israel punches above weight in Africa arms exports

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Although Israel accounted for less than 1% of transfers of major weapons to sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2006–10, the supply of...

Israel arrests second mosque arson suspect

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Israeli police Sunday said they arrested a second suspect following an arson attack on a mosque blamed on a pro-settler militant group,...

EU asks Israel, Palestinians to meet soon

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The European Union said on Sunday it plans to invite Israeli and Palestinian representatives to meet "in the coming days" to discuss...

Israel cabinet OKs reforms to cut living costs

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Israel's cabinet on Sunday overwhelmingly approved an economic reform plan aimed at easing living costs in response to weeks of popular social...

EU states divided on Palestinian statehood bid

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European Union governments sought a common approach on Friday to a possible Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month...

Israel’s Netanyahu says won’t apologise to Turkey

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he would not apologise to Turkey over an Israeli raid that killed nine Turks on a...