John Kerry

A Palestinian senior official close to the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said that Abbas and members of the Palestinian leadership are disappointed with the futility of US secretary...

The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Hamas – denounced on Sunday the American call on Turkish Prime Minister Recpep Tayyip Erdogan to postpone his visit to the Gaza...

The US Ambassador to Israel has claimed that Secretary of State John Kerry has met Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas three times but has failed to make any significant...

President Mahmoud Abbas is facing massive American and European pressure to change his mind over accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, which has coincided with US efforts...

Israel's Prime Minister has told John Kerry that recognition of the state and its security must be secured before a resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu met...

The US Secretary of State was not entirely successful in his contacts with the Palestinian and the Israeli leaderships regarding the resumption of the peace process, Israel's Maariv newspaper...

The new Israeli government has stipulated impossible pre-conditions to the resumption of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv said on Tuesday. According to Maariv, the Israeli...

Israel's Economy and Commerce Minister has told the Canadian Foreign Minister that a future state of Palestine will not be based on the borders of 1967. Right-wing politician Naftali...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, it is claimed, rejected a request from Mahmoud Abbas to provide a map of the proposed border between Israel and a future State of...

The United States and Egypt have signed an aid deal worth $190 million in the presence the US ambassador to Cairo Anne Paterson and Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil....

The London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper on Monday quoted its correspondent in Ramallah, Waleed Awad, as saying, "While US president Barak Obama is attempting to end his second term...

The Israeli government has announced plans to hand the Palestinian Authority (PA) 700 firearms ahead of US President, Barack Obama's upcoming visit, Israeli Radio said on Wednesday. The firearms...

US President Barack Obama is not going to discuss the stalled peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis during his visit to the region, Israel's Channel 10 TV...

In a sign that Israel will keep its large illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, Arab foreign ministers have said that they are ready to endorse a new...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed its concern that an agreement over land swaps with Israel will lead the Palestinian Authority and Arab world even deeper into the...

The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Riyad Al-Maliki, has said that the leadership has promised Washington to halt its efforts to join United Nations agencies. Al-Maliki...

"The number of the Syrian refugees in Jordan will make up 40 per cent of the total Jordanian population by the middle of the next year," Jordanian Foreign Minister...

As Israeli justice minister, Tzipi Livni, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, the Israel Civil Administration approved a plan to build 296 housing...

The Israeli Peace Now movement has revealed plans by the Israeli authorities to start legalising four settlement outposts built on private land in the occupied West Bank. According to...

An Israeli official has claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not freeze West Bank settlements in order to facilitate the resumption of peace talks and negotiations with the...

Israeli officials are making Israeli security an excuse not to reopen peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni claimed on Monday. Livni, who is in charge...

A Palestinian official said on Wednesday that US Secretary of State John Kerry's chances of reviving peace negotiations between the PA and Israel are slim. Veteran negotiator Nabil Shaath...

An Israeli TV station has said that the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank makes a two-state solution unrealistic and almost impossible to achieve. Israel's Channel...

The chief of Israel's secret service (Shabak), Yoram Cohen, has expressed his pessimism about the latest US moves aimed at reviving Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, Israeli radio reported on Tuesday. Cohen...

A senior member of the Fatah Central Committee said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority leadership will not give more time for the US Secretary of State's efforts to...

The director of Israel's General Security Service (Shin Bet) has told a key US committee that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's position is "strong and stable" but may be weakened...

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he would never accept preconditions from the Palestinians for resuming talks, just a day after appearing to set his own condition that a...

As US Secretary of State John Kerry increases his efforts to revive the moribund peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli government is pushing ahead with the...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has cut off aid to Palestinian activists in a bid to boost peace efforts being promoted by US Secretary of State John Kerry, a...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for asking EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton not to issue a statement which is critical of settlements....

A spokesman for Fatah's Central Committee claimed on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is being subjected to "intense pressure" to return to negotiations with Israel. Such pressure is...

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, said on Tuesday that the Kingdom considers Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah's interference in the conflict in Syria to be dangerous, adding...