Syria lashed out at Israel again Friday and threatened possible government action, a day after Damascus said its air defenses opened fire on Israeli aircraft that dropped "munitions" inside the country.
Mystery still shrouds Syria's complaint that Israel bombed its territory but the incident has set nerves jangling across the Middle East, with commentators urging both sides on Friday against an escalation into war.
Steven Gerrard will brush off his injury woes and line up for England against Israel on Saturday, but fellow midfielder Owen Hargreaves appears to be losing the race to be fit for the crucial Euro 2008 qualifier.
Steven Gerrard will play in England's European Championship qualifying match against Israel on Saturday despite a broken toe.
A quarter of Jewish Israelis doubt that Israel will exist long-term and more than 70 percent have a bad assessment of the country's security situation, an opinion poll revealed on Friday.
Trailblazing law enforcement officer dies Israel Brooks Jr., who became South Carolina’s first black state trooper during segregation and earned respect during three decades in law enforcement, died Friday morning after a long battle with cancer, his daughter said. Brooks, 63, rose through the Highway Patrol to command the Internal Affairs Unit, then to the rank of major and the No. 3 ...
Steven Gerrard will play in England's Euro 2008 qualifying match against Israel on Saturday despite a broken toe.
England will be without several injured players for Saturday's European Championship qualifying match against Israel.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 -- Israel's "frequent failure" to distinguish between military and civilian targets during the war in Lebanon last summer was the primary reason so many Lebanese civilians were killed in the bombing campaign, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
LONDON — Any suggestion at the end of last season that Emile Heskey should be recalled to the England team would have been met with ridicule. Wigan Athletic was the only club in 2006-07 not to supply a player to the England squad, but now its center forward has gone from international underachiever — five goals in 43 appearances — to England's savior against Israel in a Euro 2008 qualifier on ...