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The death toll in Israel's deadly air attack on Gaza on Friday rose to 11, according to reports.

Israeli missiles fired into Gaza has reportedly killed at least six Palestinians, including two women, despite a ceasefire brokered by Hamas.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza said it has declared a ceasefire and will cease from firing missiles at Israel, after a recent escalation of attacks between the two parties.

The tit-for-tat battles between Israel and Hamas has intensified as Israeli military strikes on Gaza kill five people in retaliation for an anti-tank missile the Palestinians hurled into the southern Israel.

The tiny nation of Lebanon, squeezed between Syria to the east and Israel to the south remains untouched by the spirit of revolution sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Under the program, postgraduates enrolled in and qualified to complete a PhD program under a university can be employed with a partnering private enterprise during the project period.

Dell is opening up a new research and development facility in Santa Clara, Calif.

The European Union (EU) and Palestinians have condemned a plan by the Israel government to construct hundreds of homes in an area claimed by Palestinians.

The government of Sudan has blamed Israel for launching a military air strike that killed two people travelling in car near the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.

While making his first official visit to Pakistan as Prime Minister, Britain’s leader David Cameron has made some comments about his country’s imperial past that has raised some hackles in London.

Israel has demanded that the United Nations cancel a report that suggested the Jewish state may have committed war crimes during its military offensive in Gaza during 2008-2009.

Three Hamas militants travelling in a car between Khan Younis and the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza were killed when missiles fired by the Israeli Air Force struck them.

Thousands of Egyptians gathered at Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand that former President Hosni Mubarak and some of his associates be put on trial.

International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., for his thoughts on Syria.

Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of Nation of Islam (NOI) in the U.S., has defended his brother” Moammar Gaddafi and blasted U.S. military action in Libya.

Egypt extends olive branch to Iran; seeks to normalize ties

Today’s much-anticipated speech from Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, failed to lift the country’s emergency laws (which have been in effect since 1963) nor did he offer any concrete political reforms or concessions.

Facebook has taken down a page created by Palestinian supporters which called for a new ‘intifada’ (uprising) against Israel, after Israel officials and U.S. Jewish groups complained.

In his first public address to the Syrian nation since unrest broke out two weeks ago, President Bashar al-Assad blamed “conspirators” for the ongoing violence and vowed that he would defeat the “plot” against his country.

As part of the resignation of the Syrian government cabinet, President Bashar al-Assad has named outgoing Prime Minister Muhammad Naji Otari as caretaker prime minister until a new government is named, the state-controlled Syrian news agency stated.