Barak says Gaza militants to pay price for Tel Aviv rocket fire

Published on November 15, 2012

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, signaling stronger Israeli military action against Palestinian militants, said on Thursday they would be made to pay a price for firing rockets toward Tel Aviv.

Gaza militants signal truce with Israel after rockets

Published on November 12, 2012

Palestinian militants indicated they were ready for a truce with Israel on Monday to defuse a growing crisis after four days of rocket strikes from the Gaza Strip into the south of the Jewish state.

Egypt broadens Sinai campaign against militants

Published on August 29, 2012

Egypt's military said on Wednesday it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.

Hamas says it is ready for Egypt-brokered truce

Published on June 20, 2012

Palestinian Hamas militants announced on Wednesday they were ready to stop the latest round of cross-border violence as long as Israel followed suit, in a statement issued after Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in a third day of fighting.

Fighting flares along Israel-Gaza border

Published on June 19, 2012

Israel killed two Palestinians in air strikes and Hamas fired its first cross-border rocket barrages in more than a year as fighting along the Israel-Gaza frontier flared on Tuesday for a second day.

French Islamic militants planned to kidnap Jewish judge

Published on April 3, 2012

Suspected Islamic militants arrested throughout France were planning terrorist attacks including kidnapping a Jewish judge.

France arrests suspected Islamic militants

Published on March 30, 2012

Police commandos arrested 19 suspected Islamic militants in raids on Friday in several French cities including Toulouse, where seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman this month.

Netanyahu pledges decisive response as rockets slam southern Israel

Published on March 12, 2012

As southern Israel was barraged by rockets for a fourth straight day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was hitting back "strongly and decisively," and its Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was intercepting many of the rockets coming from the Gaza Strip.

Rockets hit Israel, and airstrike kills Palestinian militant group’s leader in Gaza

Published on March 9, 2012

Palestinian rockets from Gaza wounded several Israelis, and an Israeli airstrike killed the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group.

Two Palestinians planting bombs killed by Israeli troops

Published on January 18, 2012

Two Palestinians were reported killed in an Israeli military strike near the Gaza border.

IDF: Gaza strike killed terrorist planning attack on Egypt border

Published on December 8, 2011

An Israeli air strike on a car killed two militants and wounded two other men on a crowded Gaza street Thursday, the Israeli army and local medical officials said.

Syria: Deal reached with Arab League on unrest

Published on November 1, 2011

Syria said on Tuesday it had reached a deal with an Arab League committee tasked with finding a way to end seven months of unrest and starting a dialogue between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents.

Israeli air strikes kill Gaza militants

Published on August 24, 2011

Israeli air strikes killed two Gaza militants, one a local commander of the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip, and wounded four others who fired rockets at Israel, despite a two-day-old truce, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.

Israeli-Arab actor fatally shot in Jenin

Published on April 4, 2011

Juliano Mer-Khamis, a well-known Israeli-Arab actor, was shot dead by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin. Mer-Khamis, whose mother was an Israeli-Jewish activist for Palestinian rights and father was a Christian Palestinian, was killed Monday after being shot five times while driving in his car, according to reports.

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza building housing militants

Published on November 11, 2010

Israel's Air Force struck a building in the Gaza Strip that it said housed armed militants.

Pakistan Reaction: Something dark is growing in our own backyard

Published on December 4, 2008

For Pakistanis at home, the fear is more palpable. It is not necessarily fear of immediate violence, but of something much darker growing in our very own backyard. Initially, the tragedy had seemed somewhat distant, but then came the damning reports that the terrorists used a boat to travel from Karachi.