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A UPS cargo plane crashes after take-off near a motorway in Dubai, killing two crew members on board, officials say.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.
The US secretary of state warns the current round of Mid-East peace talks may be “the last chance for a very long time”.
Posters promoting Egypt’s intelligence chief appear on the streets of Cairo, amid growing speculation over who will succeed President Hosni Mubarak.
Middle East negotiators agreed to keep talking, but the issue of West Bank settlements threatens to derail the negotiations.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Washington for the first direct peace talks in nearly two years and agree a framework for negotiations.
The US Secretary of State tells the Israeli and Palestinian leaders they have the “opportunity to end this conflict” as direct peace talks begin.
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders opened direct peace negotiations Thursday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged full support.
President Obama urges Mid-East leaders not to let the chance of a peace deal slip away, ahead of a new round of talks.
Simon Wiesenthal, who ran a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, worked for Israel’s spy agency, a new biography claims.
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace talks on Thursday after gathering at the White House for a moment of diplomatic theater on Wednesday night.
The Israeli prime minister believes that only someone like himself, with his hawkish credentials, has the will and support to produce lasting peace with the Palestinians.
The US president hails the end of US combat operations in Iraq, saying the US has paid “a huge price” to “put Iraq’s future in its people’s hands”.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates inaugurated the post-combat phase.
President Obama urges Mid-East leaders not to let the chance of a peace deal slip away, ahead of a new round of talks.
Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of planning a terror attack are released, prosecutors in the Netherlands say.
Marking the formal end of combat operations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said history would judge if the war was worth it.
Palestinian security forces mount a huge operation after four Israeli settlers are killed, as leaders gather in Washington to revive peace talks.
Many of the same complaints about daily life are heard now as in 2003, when the United States invasion transformed the political life of the nation.
President Obama hails the end of US combat operations in Iraq, saying the US has paid a “a huge price” to “put Iraq’s future in its people’s hands”.
Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran have bedeviled others.
The killing of four Israeli settlers on the eve of peace talks in Washington underscored the role the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the fragile negotiations.
On the eve of Middle East talks, the White House condemns an attack which killed four Jewish settlers and says it is crucial for peace efforts to continue.
Iraq’s prime minister says the country is now “independent”, as US combat operations officially come to an end.
Four Israelis are shot dead in an attack near a settlement in the West Bank, days before peace talks in the US.
