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Armed men opened fire on a security checkpoint early Wednesday in al-Arish, Egypt, on the Sinai peninsula, state media said, three days after 16 border guards were shot dead in an attack on Sunday blamed partly on Palestinian militants.

Iran reaffirmed support to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday as his forces tried to choke off rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.

As the U.N. General Assembly session in September approaches, Israel is flexing its muscles against a Palestinian bid for statehood, but such a move could only spell trouble for both sides.

Some Turkish politicians think Presisdent Barack Obama should have kept his hands free when he called Prime Minister Erdogan... but they had their own reasons to cause a stir.

Even as Egyptian government sources branded the Islamist gunmen who killed 16 policemen in Sinai near the Israeli border Sunday as "infidels," President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party said on its website that the attack "can be attributed to Mossad" and was an attempt to challenge Morsi's administration.

The Israeli Knesset Speaker has declared that if the Palestinian Authority moves forward with its bid for statehood, Israel will annex parts of the West Bank.

Wagner wrote many tracts that vilified Jews (although his anti-Semitism was hardly unusual in 19th century Europe).

Despite its relative isolation, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula plays a huge role in one of the overarching conflicts of the twentieth century.

Parents reported that after giving honey to kids, their coughing was less frequent and less severe.

"I am from today a soldier in this blessed revolution," says former premier from Jordan on Monday.

Israel is upgrading its Arrow II ballistic missile shield in a U.S.-backed "race" against Iran, Syria and other regional enemies, a senior Israeli defense official said on Sunday.

The humanitarian group says it has verified rebel claims that Bashar al-Assad's regime is using the controversial munitions in the civil war

Even though Gabby Douglas helped the U.S. bring home a Gold medal, the 16-year-old African-American's achievements did not stop some people from criticizing the gymnastic star. The reason for the criticism? Her hairdo.

The U.S. Congress passed new sanctions against Iran's oil and nuclear program on Wednesday evening, but Israeli officials remain unconvinced that the sanctions will have the desired effect.

It would not be a bold statement to say that fashion is in the midst of a revolution this year, taking strides in efforts to minimize the abundance of anorexic models, opting instead for figures the industry once would have deemed "too curvy." With models like Robyn Lawley and Kate Upton as what's en vogue on the fashion scene, one may wonder where the boom in popularity of buxom models came from. View the gallery of photos to see some of the most popular curvy and plus-size models brin...

Jared Diamond tore into presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Wednesday's New York Times, writing in an op-ed that the former Massachusetts governor "misrepresented my views" when Romney talked about culture during a speech Sunday in Jerusalem.

Barhoum also alleged that the journey to Auschwitz overshadowed the ?true Palestinian tragedy".

Interestingly, Iran and the Taliban have watched each other warily for the past fifteen years.

A spokesman for Egyptian President Morsi said a letter supposedly sent to Israeli President Peres was fake and reports of it were "slander."

Netanyahu has reiterated his threat that the Israeli military will consider taking action against Iran.

No end to headaches over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program, even among the closest of allies.