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The Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements have reached a preliminary agreement in Qatar on forming an interim unity government that would be led by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank. The agreement was Read more
Hamas prime minister in the occupied Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya has started a new regional tour to raise funds to alleviate the ongoing sufferings endured by the Palestinians besieged in the coastal enclave. Mr. Haniya, who has already visited Doha Read more
Political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshal, has paid lately a “historic” visit to Jordan where he conferred with King Abdullah II on bilateral relations, the situation in occupied Palestine, stalled peace talks with Tel Aviv and Read more
The Arab League has suspended its observer mission in Syria amid surging of bloody violence and clashes between pro-democracy protesters and government security forces. The mission was set up to verify Damascus compliance with the league’s peace plan to end Read more
The Arab League has called on Syrian President Bachar al-Assad to hand over power to his vice president in a new peace initiative unveiled to halt 10-months of bloodshed in country. At the end of their meeting in Cairo, Arab Read more
Damascus has denounced Qatar’s proposal of sending Arab troops to Syria to help end the 10-months of bloody violence and clashes between government forces and protesters. Syrian Foreign ministry expressed “deep astonishment” over such a proposal which it flatly rejects, Read more
The Arab league has decided to boost the number of its observers deployed in Syria to see on the ground whether the Syrian regime is complying with an Arab peace plan meant to halt 10-months of deadly crackdown on anti-government Read more
Syrian army has pulled its tanks out of cities and released about 3,500 detainees, says the Arab league Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby in a comment on the preliminary findings of an Arab observer mission deployed in Syria. The monitors are supposed Read more