UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday that the ‘two-state formula’ offers the only viable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the rising extremism in Israeli leadership “must not be allowed to foreclose the two-state solution”...
Pakistan urged the Security Council to “act swiftly and resolutely to bring a halt to all such Israeli violations, ensure its full compliance with...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ignited an uproar in Israel after falsely claiming in a televised speech that Israelis had "summarily executed" Ahmed, when the teenager actually was recovering at an Israeli hospital after he stabbed two Israelis, including a boy his own age...
Israel has repeatedly accused Abbas of fomenting violence with what it says are incendiary comments...
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has warned Israeli leaders to realise that “a continued conflict in the occupied territories with the Palestinians will eventually erode the very nature of their state, and the war within will not remain unconnected with the wars raging just across Israel’s imposed frontiers”...
Taking part in a debate on the situation in the Middle East including the Palestinian question in the Security Council, Pakistan’s UN...
BRUSSELS: Jordan’s king warned Israel of a massive conflict if it proceeds with plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, as European Union foreign ministers met on Friday to discuss what action the bloc might take in response to such a move...
Israel has vowed to annex Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley, which could spell the end of the long-stalled peace process by making it virtually impossible to establish a...
Israel bombarded Gaza with artillery and air strikes on Friday in response to a new barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-run enclave, in an intensification of a conflict that has now claimed more than 100 Palestinian lives...
Images early Friday showed large balls of flame turning the night sky orange in densely packed Gaza, while rockets were seen tracing through the air towards Israel...
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a sovereign and democratic Palestinian state is the “best way” to ensure Israel's future...
“The commitment of the United States to Israel's security is without question and our support for an independent Jewish state is unequivocal,” he said...
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan said on Sunday the death toll from their border conflict had risen to 71 people, as a fragile ceasefire held between two Central Asian nations for a second day...
The former Soviet republics clashed over a border dispute on September 14-16, accusing each other of using tanks, mortars, rocket artillery and assault drones to attack outposts and nearby settlements...
In a bizarre turn of events, India's Border Security Force (BSF) has requested the Khangarh Police Station SHO in Amritsar to register a first information report (FIR) against a pigeon found near the border with Pakistan which was carrying a paper with a Pakistani number on it, Indian media reported on Wednesday...
According to India Today, the black and white pigeon was caught on April 17 after it perched on the shoulder of Constable...
NEW DELHI: Israel may be too small a country for the formidable Indian army to emulate in strategy or military philosophy, but in the mind of the Hindu nationalist leadership in Delhi the Jewish state has been the cynosure of invincibility, a model state...
The world took note of the army’s capability after last month’s “surgical strikes” on militant bases in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Modi said, comparing the Indian military...
Clashes erupted as thousands gathered for a third consecutive Friday of mass protests along Gaza's border with Israel after violence in which Israeli forces have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others...
Limited clashes between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli soldiers took place in at least two areas along the border, AFP reporters said, with larger protests expected after Friday prayers...
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH: Israel’s military has said that a tank fired at a Hamas position in the Gaza Strip after Israeli troops came under fire on the frontier while apprehending two armed Palestinians...
Israeli forces regularly carry out night raids in Palestinian-governed parts of the West Bank to arrest suspects they accuse of militant activities against Israel...
JERUSALEM: Israel closed its only crossing for people with the Gaza Strip on Sunday except for humanitarian cases after weekend border clashes, the latest tightening of its blockade on the Palestinian enclave despite truce efforts...
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the closure of the Erez crossing was due to “violent incidents on the border last Friday”...
Three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old, were shot dead by Israeli fire in new clashes along the Gaza border on Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said...
At least another 50 people were wounded, the ministry said, as Palestinians again demonstrated in different spots along the border...
GAZA CITY: Five Palestinians were killed on Friday as fresh clashes broke out with Israeli troops on Gaza’s border with the Jewish state, despite Egyptian-brokered truce efforts, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said...
The five men, aged between 22 and 27, died in separate incidents along the border fence, the ministry said...
BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday they would hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, in what Washington hailed as a “historic” agreement between two sides technically still at war...
The United States will act as a facilitator during the UN-backed talks to be held in the southern Lebanon border town of Naqoura, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told a news conference in Beirut,...