The UN General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to make Palestine a non-member state, inflicting a major diplomatic defeat on the United States and Israel.

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As tension escalates in West Asia, the US has dispatched three warships to the region to be on standby in the event of a need, even as President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spo

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will leave Asia on Tuesday to visit Israel, Egypt and Ramallah, stepping up US efforts to avoid a worsening of the Gaza crisis, an official said.

Clinton will meet

Israeli air strikes killed 22 Palestinians on Monday, hiking the Gaza death toll over 100 as global efforts to broker a truce to end the worst violence in four years gathered pace.

In the latest bloo

Israel bombed Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip from air and sea for a fifth straight day on Sunday, preparing for a possible ground invasion though Egypt saw "some indications" of a truc

An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, medics said, with Palestinian security sources confirming they were Hamas militants.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in the first attack on Israel's biggest city in 20 years, raising the stakes in a military showdown between Israel and the Pale

A fresh Israeli air raid on Gaza early on Sunday killed a 12-year-old and wounded another Palestinian, bringing the death toll from strikes since Friday to 17, medical sources said.

"An Israeli air r

After four years, Egypt on Saturday permanently opened the Gaza Strip's main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory's Palestinian population and a significant achi

Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, on Monday condemned the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US raid in Pakistan.