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JERUSALEM - Hours after Palestinian militants killed five Israeli soldiers in two attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced a raucous and sometimes volatile crowd of fellow Likud Party members last night and defended his support for a U.S.-backed...

President Bush's proposal to jump-start the deadlocked Middle East peace process was put on hold Wednesday, as the White House acknowledged that the plan is becoming a victim of the new spate of suicide bombings. The president had been expected to call...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - As Israel's prime minister congratulated the military for assassinating Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the militant group Hamas, more than 200,000 Palestinians jammed the streets for his funeral march and vowed...

JERUSALEM — Beset by angry hecklers in Israel's parliament, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed today to push ahead with his plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip. Speaking as lawmakers reconvened for their autumn session, the beleaguered...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned his conservative Likud Party today that forming a new ruling coalition with the leftist Labor Party was the only way to avoid the collapse of the government and early elections. Sharon said he would try to...

WASHINGTON - With a rare apology to abuse victims in Iraq, top Bush administration officials moved on several fronts yesterday to halt the erosion of American credibility worldwide from mistreatment of prisoners and limit further political damage to the...

Smarting from a symbolic loss in Israel's parliament, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today explored ways to widen his tottery coalition while pushing a controversial plan to remove Israeli settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip. Sharon and...

The Israeli parliament today approved a historic plan to withdraw Jewish settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip, accepting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal by a comfortable margin after two days of rancorous debate. The vote — 67 to 45,...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval today for compensation payments to Jewish settlers who are to be uprooted under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. The bill's passage in the...

Israeli Vice Premier Ehud Olmert said in an interview published today that Israel should pull settlers and soldiers from additional areas of the West Bank after the partial withdrawal planned for next year. But a spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today invited the left-leaning Labor Party to enter talks on joining his conservative governing coalition, a move meant to ensure that the prime minister will be able to move ahead with his plan to...

WASHINGTON - After weeks of hushed talks, President Bush is edging closer to endorsing a withdrawal plan by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that could mark the most significant development in the Arab-Israeli conflict since the start of the...