The assassins of a senior Hamas operative used a powerful muscle relaxant to incapacitate him before suffocating him with a pillow in his hotel room, Dubai police said Sunday, in the latest revelations from the slaying local authorities have blamed on Israel.

Israel and the United States have differences of perspective and judgment on Iran and the Middle East, but the overall relationship is sound, Ehud Barak said.

Israeli and U.S. officials held strategic talks over Iran's nuclear threat and Middle East peace.

A Jewish Democratic U.S. congressman slammed President Obama for reappointing an ambassador to Syria.
New York Rep. Eliot Engel called Obama's appointment last week of Robert Ford a "mistake."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah met Thursday evening in Damascus along with their senior advisors, and discussed regional developments and “the zionist threat,” it was revealed Friday.

A bipartisan slate of U.S. Congress members urged the Obama administration to keep the Goldstone report from advancing to the International Court of Justice.

The suspected killers of Hamas strongman Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month in Dubai used forged French passports, effectively stealing the identity of French citizens.

The United States should pack up and leave the Middle East and stay out of regional affairs, Iran's president said.

Another 15 suspects were identified in the assassination of a Hamas official, Dubai police announced.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has asked to be removed as a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize.