New Delhi, May 31: The CPM is going where the Indian government has not gone for a long time, by sending a gift of Rs 1 crore to the people of Palestine.
NAHR AL-BARED. LEBANESE ground troops, backed by artillery, tightened the noose yesterday around Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate.
History : Formed about two years ago as a splinter group from the Popular Resistance Committees. Aims : Liberation of Palestine and creation of an Islamic state.
A missile-firing helicopter joined the Lebanese army offensive against al-Qaida-inspired militants on Saturday, the second day of a push against Islamic fighters vowing a fight to the death inside a Palestinian refugee camp.
An Islamic group threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don't wear strict Islamic dress, frightening reporters and signaling a further shift toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.
Not far from my balcony overlooking the Mediterranean lies a sunken French submarine. It sits on the bottom of the sea just to the left of the blossoming purple jacaranda tree which stands opposite my bedroom window. It was sunk in 1941 when a disguised Royal Navy vessel slunk up the coast of Lebanon from Palestine and discovered two U-boats of the Vichy French fleet trying to make it home after ...
Hanan Porath's army unit was among the first to reach the Western Wall in old Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site — and it felt like deliverance after 2,000 years of exile and persecution.
Lebanese army backed by a missile firing helicopter stepped up the offensive against al-Qaeda-inspired militants Saturday, on the second day of a push against Islamic fighters who have vowed to fight to death inside a Palestinian refugee camp.
The Norwegian government decided Thursday to provide 70 million Norwegian krone (about 11.7 million U.S. dollars) in aid to the Palestinian unity government, said reports from Oslo.
In his small grocery store just off Sultan Suleiman Street, which runs past the Old City's Damascus Gate and through the Arab side of downtown Jerusalem, a Palestinian merchant grumbles about the hardships and indignities under Israeli rule. His complaints are long-standing among Palestinians here, yet the reality for him and others is shifting in response to the violence and economic ...