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"A Palestinian state is a must and an absolute prerequisite for normalization with Israel," a Saudi political analyst told ...

President-elect Donald Trump vowed swift vengeance if the hostages taken during the Hamas-led attack on Israel aren’t ...

Meanwhile, Trump threatened ‘all hell to pay’ if the remaining hostages are not released and vowed to block the sale of U.S.

Israeli leaders hailed on Tuesday a pledge by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that there would be "hell to pay" in the ...

Despite promising peace in the Middle East throughout his election campaign, Trump threatened "all hell to pay" if captives ...

Israel says it carried out airstrikes on targets in Lebanon in Monday as Hezbollah said it fired on an Israeli military position as both sides accused each other of breaking last week’s ceasefire ...

World leaders failed to focus on a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and risk making the same mistake ...

It doesn’t surprise me that he would go into a bookstore and get a book of history, particularly about the Middle East, to ...

Trump’s ambassador pick refuses to acknowledge the existence of Palestinians and thinks God gave the region to Jews 4,000 ...

Students in a Near Eastern Studies First Year Seminar try their hand at creating replicas of cuneiform tablets ...

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...