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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday.
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Peace process in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict  
Ready for 'historic' compromise : Israel PM
JERUSALEM: Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today called for "outside the box" thinking to reach a resolution to the vexed Middle East issue and promised a "historic compromise" with... (photo: AP / Menahem Kahana, Pool)
The Times Of India
Election posters of parliamentarian candidates hang on utility poles in Kabul, Afghanistan  on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
Afghanistan   Elections   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Elections in Afghanistan  
Afghanistan's most unusual parliamentary contenders
Campaigning has intensified in Afghanistan as the country's parliamentary elections draw closer. | About 2,500 candidates are standing for 249 seats in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of pa... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
BBC News
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers his speech at a ceremony honoring the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday once again turned his fiery rhetoric on Israel and saying that it will soon disappear from the world map. Ahmadinejad was speaking at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on his death anniversar ‘Hit on Iran would spell Israel’s eradication’
| DOHA (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out an attack on the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme, during a visit to Qatar on Sunday, because any such action would result in I... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi) The Jordan Times
Iran   Israel   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
A Palestinian man inspects the damage following Israeli air strikes on a smuggling tunnel at the border with Egypt in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israel pounds Gaza tunnels as peace talks hit snares
| Lieberman rules out settlement freeze, sees negotations ‘failing’ | Compiled by Daily Star staff | Monday, September 06, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Israeli Army aircraft bombed three Gaza tunne... (photo: AP / Eyad Baba) Daily Star Lebanon
Defence   Gaza   Israel   Photos   Wikipedia: Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels  
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This image made from video provided by the Israeli Defence Force on Monday, May 31, 2010 shows what the IDF says is a clash between commandos being dropped by helicopter and people aboard the Mavi Marmara ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli commandos rappelled down to an aid flotilla sailing to thwart a Gaza blockade on Monday, clashing with pro-Palestinian activists on the lead ship in a raid that left at least nine passengers dead. UN experts end Jordan probe of Israel's raid on flotilla for Gaza
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Monday, September 06, 2010 | - Powered by | AMMAN: UN rights officials investigating Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flot... (photo: AP / Israel Defence Force) Daily Star Lebanon
Gaza   Israel   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Gaza flotilla raid  
Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output At 50, Opec still dominates
| Once upon a time in Baghdad, fifty years ago and exactly on September 14, 1960, the five developing countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met and ... (photo: AP / Hasan Jamali) Gulf News
Markets   OPEC   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: OPEC  
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday. Netanyahu's chance to make amends
| Direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations started last week in Washington. The beginning of the direct peace talks was announced at a White House ceremony hosted by... (photo: AP / Menahem Kahana, Pool) Gulf News
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Israeli settlement  
A U.S. army helicopter flies past the minaret of the 14th of Ramadan mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007. The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, following a Sept. 16 shooting incident involving Blackwater USA guards that left 17 Iraqi civilians Mercenaries are operating with impunity
| When President Barack Obama announced that the majority of US troops were leaving Iraq and that only 50,000 troops would stay "to advise and assist" Iraqi sec... (photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovi) Gulf News
Defence   Human Rights   Iraq   Photos   Wikipedia: Blackwater Worldwide  
A Muslim worshipper raises the Palestinian flag while praying in front of the Dome of the Rock  Mosque during the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Progress of Middle East peace talks 'a surprise'
| PALESTINIANS and Arabs have seen a possible breakthrough in Middle East peace talks. | Key Palestinian and Arab leaders  been surprised by what they now see as the... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen) The Australian
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Peace process in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict  
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. At Least 7 Dead in Baghdad Attack
| BAGHDAD — Insurgents continued a relentless assault on Iraq’s military and security forces on Sunday, launching a coordinated attack on one of the main comm... (photo: AP) The New York Times
Iraq   Photos   US   Violence   Wikipedia: 2003 invasion of Iraq  
An Afghan boy walks past election posters for presidential and provincial council candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Taleban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election
KABUL - Afghanistan's Taleban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against ... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq) Khaleej Times
Afghanistan   Elections   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
French President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with children holding French and British union flags after a commemorative ceremony at the Mont Valerien memorial in Suresnes, west of Paris, Friday, June 18, 2010, on the 69th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's appeal from London for a French resistance to the German during World War II. 2 French hostages in Afghanistan 'in good health'
| PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff says two French journalists held hostage in Afghanistan are "in good health" and that negotiations toward their relea... (photo: AP / Christophe Ena, pool) Herald Tribune
Afghanistan   Health   Hostages   Photos   Sarkozy  
Iraq Saudi Arabia
So much for the end of combat operations in Iraq: U.S. troop
Twelve dead after Baghdad attacks
Zaha Hadid: 'Going back to Baghdad will be very difficul
Twelve killed in suicide assault on Iraq army base
In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi , center, inspects the site of a suicide attack accompanied by soldiers at a military headquarters in Baghdad, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
Militants kill 12 in assault on military base in Baghdad
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No AI flights for Haj this year, Saudi carriers win bids bat
SC allows gov't to pursue case against Silverio
Counter culture? Many Pak youths giving up Islam
Mall owners receiving parking fee-donations
Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output
At 50, Opec still dominates
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Syria Kuwait
Catholic Syrian Bank plans big
Racy Syrian soap delights some, damages others
Syrian soap causes Ramadan stir
Taboo-breaking Syrian soap causes Ramadan stir
A U.S. soldier of Charlie Company 1-15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry Division, passes next to a wall painted with the Iraqi flag during a routine patrol in Salman Pak, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 1, 200
The risks of withdrawal loom
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Pilot shortage forces budget airline to cut UAE flights
Qatari banks emerge stronger than their peers from the crisi
At 50, Opec still dominates
Obama's hurried exit from Iraq is a travesty of morality
Employees of Bahrain Petroleum Company, the Persian Gulf island's national oil company, crank on a pipeline valve Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oilfields. Growing evidence of a severe global economic slowdown drove oil prices below $62 a barrel Monday as investors brushed off a sizeable OPEC output
At 50, Opec still dominates
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UAE Egypt
Shaikh Mohammad receives dignitaries in Khor Dubai
Ruler of Sharjah orders dispatch of relief for Pakistan
696 Eid
Musallas
in UAE
this year
Pilot shortage forces budget airline to cut UAE flights
Camels and bedouin village camp in the desert of Dubai, UAE, November 2007
Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
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War Intrudes on a Man's Bucolic Idyll
Egypt’s political battle lines drawn on the web
Peace talks to resume in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh
Blair's figments 
of imagination
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday.
Netanyahu's chance to make amends
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Jordan Iran
Skepticism abounds in Middle East after peace talks 'sho
Nude Art Mag Riles Middle East
Timely talks: Obama opens his push for a Middle East accord
Iran threat may spur Middle East peace talks
 A reactor building of Iran´s Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005. Iran and Ru
Iran threat may spur Middle East peace talks
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Terrorists kill 12 and injure 36 in army base attack
Palestinian Authority lashes out at Iran president
‘Hit on Iran would spell Israel’s eradication’
Woman facing death to be lashed first
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers his speech at a ceremony honoring the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday once again turned his fiery rhetoric on Israel and saying that it will soon disappear from the world map. Ahmadinejad was speaking at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on his death anniversar
‘Hit on Iran would spell Israel’s eradication’
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