Middle East
Hamas says Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war
Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel\'s offensive in the Gaza Strip, ...Islamic State massacres 80 Yazidis in north Iraq, say officials
Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq\'s Yazidi minority in a village in the country\'s north, a Yazidi lawmaker and ...Palestinians accuse Israel of violating Gaza truce
The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely ...Maliki refuses to go as Iraqis turn to new leader
An increasingly isolated Nuri al-Maliki again protested his removal as Iraqi prime minister on Wednesday, as his own political party and his ...Renewed Israel, Palestinian truce off to shaky start
Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky ...Islamic militants seize 2 northern Syrian towns
Islamic extremists captured two key towns and several villages near Syria\'s northern border with Turkey on Wednesday after pushing out rival fighters ...Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go
Iraq\'s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki\'s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go ...Israelis, Palestinians begin new talks to end Gaza war
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt on Monday to end a month-old Gaza war, Egypt\'s state news agency ...Israel, Palestinians launch new three-day truce
Israel and the Palestinians held their fire early on Monday at the start of a new 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt that ...ISIS militants kill hundreds of Yazidis in Iraq, bury some alive
Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq\'s Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, burying some of their victims alive ...