TEL AVIV — Mohammad Dahlan, a former Gaza security chief with close ties to the U.S., resigned as Palestinian national security adviser yesterday after he was blamed for allowing Hamas' seizure of the coastal strip.
TEL AVIV — Foreign ministers from Jordan and Egypt made a groundbreaking visit to Jerusalem yesterday to promote an Arab League peace plan that offers normal diplomatic relations in exchange for a return to Israel"s pre-1967 borders.
In May, fighting broke out between Fatah Islam, a militant Islamist Palestinian organization, and the Lebanese army after a bank robbery in which the robbers were traced to the militants' office in Tripoli.
In May, fighting broke out between Fatah Islam, a militant Islamist Palestinian organization, and the Lebanese army after a bank robbery in which the robbers were traced to the militants' office in Tripoli.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Tony Blair couldn't ask for a better starting point as the new Middle East peace envoy.
JERUSALEM — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair kicked off his first visit to the Middle East today as the international community's new envoy to the region, hoping to add new momentum to fledgling peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Tony Blair couldn't ask for a better starting point as the new Middle East peace envoy.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called for early elections that could freeze Hamas out of the political arena, thus deepening animosities with the Islamist militant group after its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip.
