'It will not be recorded in my history that I gave up on Jerusalem,' Abbas said of the U.S. plan in Cairo, after Palestinians call for an emergency meeting of Arab FMs

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An Israeli who spent years being 'very busy being gay' and is now focusing on what Judaism means to him, and a French expat who loves Paris but feels at home in Jerusalem

'I'm sure a few people will surprise their relatives in Britain with a letter carrying this stamp,' spokesman says of the collector item

The historic move comes after 47 years on the post-World War Two project that sought to build the ruined nations of Europe into a global power

By a vote of 51-49, the Republican-controlled Senate stopped Democrats' drive to hear testimony from witnesses like former national security adviser John Bolton

The multiculturalist left in Israel and elsewhere has become so extremist in its embrace of groups that reject democracy that it has turned into the useful idiot of rightist zealots that advocate the supremacy of certain religious and ethnic communities, and undermine the legitimacy of pluralism

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, described the offensive near al-Bab as a fierce attack 'carried out by factions loyal to Ankara'

Two months after former premier ousted by protests, Mohammed Allawi has a month to form a new government and lead until early elections can be held