Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Is Quitting Politics
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak is quitting his current job as Defense Minister of Israel and says he will give up politics altogether following January's elections.
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Iran has announced the list of eight qualified candidates who have been approved to campaign for president, including two men who are suspects in a notorious 1994 terrorist attack.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak is quitting his current job as Defense Minister of Israel and says he will give up politics altogether following January's elections.
New details stemming the agreement to play nice between Israel and Hamas will be negotiated over the next few weeks, and so the biggest winners are Gaza's fisherman. They can now fish twice as far off shore.
We're almost through the first twenty four hours of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza, and besides a few stray rockets in the first couple hours, it seems to be holding. We could be in the clear, folks.
As today's ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestine begins to take effect, we'll continue to monitor whether it's actually working. But what's the political fallout from the peace accord?
The conflict in Gaza and Southern Israel may finally be coming to a halt, but eight days of violence have left behind a trail of destruction and death all too familiar to the region — and a trail of incredible images like never before.
The Palestinians and Israelis have brokered a cease fire agreement that went into effect at 9 p.m. Cairo time, but bombs were launched until the last possible minutes and now we're waiting to see if this thing sticks.
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A bomb has exploded on a bus in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, injuring more than a dozen, but also threatening to permanently derail any hopes of a cease fire in Gaza.
Israel is still denying any agreement being on the table "at this point," and the deadline came and went.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to Israel and Egypt today to join the diplomatic effort to bring a cease fire to the conflict in Gaza.
As the death toll continues to climb, Egyptian leaders are getting creative as they tackle the seemingly impossible task of bartering a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
For the second day in a row, an Israeli missile has hit the media center in Gaza, this time claiming the life of a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
Reporter Sharon Udasin is not a military or political correspondent, but she's learning the hard way how difficult it can be to cover anything else—pets, specifically, and now, more than ever—when your world is consumed by the throes of war.
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Scary and heartbreaking images continue to emerge from the growing war in Gaza and southern Israel, even as world leaders desperately hope for a truce and Israel prepares for a larger invasion.
The fighting between Israel and Hamas continued Sunday night with rocket attacks on both sides, while in the background the efforts to work out a ceasefire have begun to ramp up.
There are signs, however small, that an end to the most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza is coming to a close.
Gaza's Prime Minister no longer has an office. The latest Israeli offensive took out his headquarters along with the headquarters for the police and homeland security.
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The prime minister of Egypt visited Gaza today in an attempt to broker a cease fire, but neither side let up on its aggressive rocket-based war.
While the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians continued Thursday evening with the two countries exchanging rocket fire, life for many citizens continued as normal. It can be easy to forget that life has to continue, even during war time.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Israel's surprise attack on Hamas this week is that many people learned about it by reading about it on the Israeli Defense Forces own surreal Twitter feed.
This is not a photo of a sunrise. It's the Gaza Strip being hit by an Israeli missile as their campaign to wipe out militants in Gaza has continued into a second day.
After days of increasingly heavy artillery shelling from Gaza—and even heavier responses from the other side—Israel's military has killed a senior Hamas official in a targeted strike.
Israel's military fired weapons into Syria for the second straight day in response to errant cross-border firing that threatens to draw the Israeli's into Syria's civil war.
No one can say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backs down from a fight. The leader looking for reelection let two old foes know that if they want to start something with Israel, he'd be happy to finish it.
Just in case you needed any more evidence that Israel is really super serious about wanting to take out Iran's nuclear operations, a new report claims that Benjamin Netanyahu initiated a plan to attack Iran back as early as 2010.
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After a wild week of rocket attacks and reprisals, an Egypt-brokered ceasefire appears to be holding between Israel and Hamas, according to a handful of reports.
A mysterious explosion leveled an ammunition factory in Sudan last night, but the Sudanese government is now claiming the building was bombed by Israeli warplanes.
The leader of the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah has taken credit for the unidentified drone shot down in Israel last Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked a great time to call for an early election. He's practically been campaigning for a month now.
Intrigue in the Middle East! Israeli officials are currently trying to figure out where a drone that flew into their airspace on Saturday morning came from. They shot it down just to be sure.
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Just one week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu literally drew a red line on Iran's nuclear program, Iran is threatening to dash passed it if negotiations with major powers fail.
For years, cable news analysts have used fancy graphics to map out the blueprint of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Turns, they may have been forecasting the wrong scenario.
Here it is: Photographic evidence that President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone about something at some point in time this morning.
The whole point of drawing a "red line" for one's opponents is to send a clear signal when enough is enough. Unfortunately, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the chart he used today for his "red line" on Iran's nuclear program was kind of confusing. Here's why.
The most anticipated address at the United Nations today is the speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is expected to issue an unusually specific ultimatum to Iran regarding its nuclear program.
After failing to pressure President Obama into drawing a "clear red line" on Iran's nuclear program, Benjamin Netanyahu is going it alone.
It will likely be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's last big speech on the international stage this week, and United Nations organizers are terrified he's going to go out with a bang.
Three militants armed with explosives and guns attacked a military checkpoint on Israel's border with Egypt today, killing one soldier before all three were killed by return fire.
We now have footage of the foreign policy section of Mitt Romney's secretly-taped remarks at a private fundraiser where he said he said his "job is not to worry about" the 47 percent of Americans he says are voting for President Obama because they're "dependent upon government."
For the next two weeks, the right has delivered President Obama a clear ultimatum: Meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or face constant nagging about every single non-essential appointment you make.
The President came under fire on Tuesday for supposedly snubbing an invitation for lunch from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for later in September, but Obama made it up to Netanyahu on Tuesday night when the two spoke for an hour on the phone.
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Israel and Iran have been sparring over Iran's nuclear development for months, but, after news leaked the U.S has been quietly trying to diffuse any potential of an attack, a warning was issued that they would be included in the retaliation should anything happen.
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An Israel court has ruled that the Israeli military was not at fault in the death of Rachel Corrie, an pro-Palestinian activist who was killed trying to stop the demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
If you'd like to vacation in Iran, you're never going to find a safer time to travel there then next week.
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