The Palestinian application for full membership to the United Nations has apparently stalled for now, but new member nations joining the UN Security Council in January could alter the current vote balance on the matter. As part of the UN’s…
The Israel Prison Service on Wednesday unveiled the second list of prisoners set to be released as part of October’s exchange deal with Hamas for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. However, unlike the previous stage of prisoners in which a number…
The United Nations again reported a substantial increase in the number of those killed in the ongoing violence against the opposition in Syria, upping the death toll to more than 5,000. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said…
At least seven people were killed in an explosion at an Iranian steel mill on Monday, the third explosion in Iran in roughly a month. According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, a gas leak is being blamed for the…
A reconciliation deal between the two main Palestinian factions—Gaza’s Hamas and the Fatah party led by President Mahmoud Abbas—is sputtering yet again, according to the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency. The two rivals first signed a deal in May that would…
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and the previous prime minister of Lebanon have both pointed at Syria for last week’s bombing attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. Juppe, speaking with French newspaper Le Monde, said that he does not have…