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Celebrations erupted across the Gaza Strip as a long-term ceasefire was agreed upon by the Palestinian and Israeli authorities on Tuesday, ending 50 days of some of the most brutal violence in over a decade. The ceasefire will come into effect at 16:00 GMT and will immediately bring the violence in Gaza to an end – from July 8th, the …

On Monday, the White House said that US President Barack Obama has not taken a decision so far on launching air strikes at Islamic State (IS) extremists in Syria. “The president has not made any decision to conduct military action in Syria”, Josh Earnest, a spokesman for the White House, said, amid increasing expectations of US actions after similar US …

Syria on Monday said that it was willing to work with the international community against “terrorism” as the United Nations accused extremists in Iraq of conducting an “ethnic and religious cleansing”. UN human rights Chief Navi Pillay leveled the accusations as Kurdish peshmerga forces forced back militants from the Islamic State (IS) northeast of Baghdad only a day after they …

On Friday, Israel removed from two government-run Twitter accounts a chilling image of US journalist James Foley just before he was beheaded, after the tweets sparked widespread controversy on the internet. The picture was taken from a video of the beheading of Foley by a masked militant belonging to the Islamic State, and was posted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

Iran reportedly intends to send aid to Gaza after Egypt said that it will allow the shipment to enter the Palestinian enclave. The official IRNA news agency reported that Cairo had agreed to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, citing a source in the foreign ministry. The source added that the first Iranian Red Crescent shipment would consist almost 100 tons …

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas continued his talks with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Qatar for a second day, in what many believe is a follow up meeting to the talks on the previous day, which had lasted for three hours. The discussions, which have been taking place at Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani’s palace, started after fighting …

On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas spoke with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal as renewed fighting continued in the Gaza Strip following the failure of the Egyptian-brokered truce deal. The two spoke in Doha, where Meshaal is currently operating from, and were hosted by the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, an important supporter of Hamas, the QNA news …

On Wednesday, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said Israel was “blocking” all attempts to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a day after the temporary ceasefire collapsed in the Palestinian enclave. “Israel is blocking any kind of agreement leading to calm” in Gaza, Arabi told journalists. “The Arab League wants to reach a permanent truce as soon as possible”, …

  Even before starting work as chairman of a United Nations human rights commission investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Canadian law professor William Schabas has been vilified as an apologist for Iran incapable of setting aside his perceived anti-Israel bias. Full page adverts have been taken out against him in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington …

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, on Wednesday warned foreign airliners against flying to Tel Aviv, threatening to escalate the conflict with Israel and declaring that truce talks in Egypt were over. “We are warning international airlines and press them to stop flying into Ben Gurion airport from 6 am (0300 GMT) Thursday”, Abu Obeida, a spokesman …