Earlier this week IDF forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at an army post near Mevo Dotan the in the northern West Bank.

France will vote for a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements drafted by Arab states if it is moderate and does not halt a resumption of peace talks, its foreign minister said Thursday.

Caretaker PM urges calm in recent political crisis: 'Any drop of blood that falls from any Lebanese citizen is more important to me than any post.'

Comment by Iran official at P5+1 nuclear talks in Istanbul comes as chief Iranian envoy to the meet praises what he calls a 'positive atmosphere.'

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, expressed regrets about his use of Holocaust terminology in attacking Republicans during the debate over health care reform.

Sonia Peres rarely appeared in the public eye, preferring to play a backstage role in her husband's six-decade political career.

Russia said Thursday it would not send any new art exhibitions to the United States until the two sides had settled a dispute over the return of a Jewish library to New York.

Comment by Iran IAEA envoy comes as Tehran denies it is to offer a new uranium-swap deal in upcoming P5+1 nuclear talks in Istanbul.

Twenty Tunisian Jews left the country for Israel because of the instability following the popular uprising which ousted Tunisia’s President Ben Ali, and dozens of others are also considering the move, reports said.

French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie Thursday kicked off a four-day Middle East tour, her first since taking office last year, with stops in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt and Jordan.