Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yona Metzger on Sunday called on US President Barack Obama to free Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard if he wants Jews to vote for his reelection.

Top Palestinian diplomat at UN says Palestinian leadership indicates willingness to go back to negotiations, despite unilateral Palestinian effort to attain UN recognition of statehood.

Al-Qaida's deputy leader speaks out against NATO and U.S. in video released on militant websites Friday; U.S., U.K., France pledge to continue Libya military campaign until Gadhafi steps down

Former Egyptian president claims he ordered the country's military to protect protesters, and that if anyone says anything else, they are 'a liar'.

Document, dated March 23, details Syrian strategy for countering anti-regime sentiment; calls on government to create links between rebels, 'Zionist regime.'

A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement released Sunday strongly condemns IDF attacks on Gaza, in which Palestinians say 19 were killed.

Israeli President Shimon Peres urged UN Security Council ambassadors Thursday to call for a halt to attacks on Israel from Gaza after members of the military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus in southern Israel, critically wounding a 16-year-old teen and seriously injuring the driver.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton ''strongly condemned'' Thursday’s mortar and rocket attacks out of the Gaza strip and expressed ''deep concern'' at the current escalation of violence.

The target of an airstrike on a car in Sudan blamed on Israel was a high-ranking Hamas official, Palestinian intelligence officials said.

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton joined the United States and the United Nations in condemning a Jerusalem committee's approval of new housing in Gilo.