A rocket fired from Gaza fell close to a kindergarten in an Israeli village on Tuesday morning. Earlier, the Israeli Air Force struck several targets in Gaza in retaliation for a recent increase in rocket and mortar shell fire. Small groups appear to be...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister on Monday welcomed Washington’s decision to abandon its call for an Israeli freeze on settlement construction, saying the United States now understands Israel and the Palestinians must instead...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed after hours of discussions to seek the resumption of direct Middle East peace talks.

Palestinian Authority Security officials said Tuesday night that they had arrested two Hamas operatives in connection with the recent West Bank shooting attack that wounded two Israelis. The September 1st attack occurred at the Rimonim Junction, near...

Israeli aircraft have carried out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another. Palestinian officials said at least one other person was missing after the raids, which targeted tunnels used to smuggle in goods from...

The international tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of a former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, requested Wednesday that Hezbollah turn over evidence that the militant group says implicates Israel in the assassination.

A Grad-type Katyusha rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip struck close to an apartment building in a residential area of Ashkelon on Friday, while two mortar shells exploded in the western Negev just a few hours later. The Katyusha...

A Israeli soldier is to face charges over the shooting of two Palestinian women during Operation Cast lead in Gaza a year and a half ago, the army said on Wednesday.

To protest the “biased” nature of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinians, Israeli officials will not attend that organization’s two-day international meeting on the peace process, which opens in Turkey on...

The amendment — to a 1969 order on dealings with those judged to be infiltrators of the West Bank — was signed by military officials last October and is due to take effect on Tuesday. In the original document, issued two years after Israel captured...