ISRAEL today dismissed a proposal by Hamas to call a conditional six-month truce in the Gaza Strip, calling it a ruse aimed at allowing the Palestinian Islamist group to recover from recent fighting
A UN agency has suspended its aid operations in the Gaza Strip after an emergency shipment of fuel designated for its use was blocked by petrol-hungry Palestinian farmers
PARTIES that walked out of Iraq`s government last year have agreed to rejoin, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said today, in what could amount to a long-awaited political breakthrough
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