(Reuters) - Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Islamist militants in Gaza have made no progress so far, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, as a 72-hour ceasefire in the shattered Palestinian enclave held for a second day. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas has entered Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel on a new border regime for blockaded Gaza from a point of military weakness: it lost hundreds of fighters, two-thirds of its 10,000 rockets and all of its attack tunnels, worth $100 million, Israel...

(By Faris al-Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad) Amid the recent accelerated events in Iraq, political analyst Abed Al Rahman Matar confirmed to Zaman Al Wasl, that after the sweeping invasion of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to...

Militants from the extremist Islamist State of Iraq and Syria on Wednesday seized the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, a day after the country’s second-largest city Mosul fell under their control. Their sweeping advances, and the rapid collapse of the Iraqi army - on which the...