Yearender: Mideast peace roadmap reaches dead-end in 2004
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Looking back at the major events that took place in the Middle East in 2004, the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is undoubtedly a world-shaker.
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The US is gearing up for possible re-engagement in an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has been on hold for most of the last four years because of a Palestinian terrorism war and Israeli countermeasures.
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Tentative hopes for a revived peace process in the Israel-Palestinian conflict were shattered last night by the collapse of Ariel Sharon&#39;s parliamentary majority and the prospect
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The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority are expected to announce their intention to suspend attacks after four years of conflict.
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srael has offered peace talks to the Palestinians and Syria if they move against anti-Israel violence, Israel&#39;s Foreign Minister says, endorsing the United States-backed &quot;road map&quot; peace plan again after a year of going it alone.
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Israel's U.N. ambassador said he doubted a new Arab League initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict would fairly consider Israel's security needs, insisting the "road map" for peace unveiled in 2003 remained the only viable option.
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Mideast diplomacy has taken off after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel still supports the US-backed road map peace plan. Sharon spoke after a senior advisor was quoted as saying that Sharon&#39;s
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The honeymoon's over for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
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Key players in the search for Middle East peace have reached understanding on a plan that could lead to a comprehensive settlement.
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A Mideast peace summit designed to open a new chapter for Israelis and Palestinians fed up with violence concluded Monday with no new agreements and a pledge to keep talking.
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The exit from the world stage of Palestinian leader and icon Yasser Arafat will mark the end of a turbulent era, and the beginning of a period of uncertainty and possible instability in the volatile cauldron of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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A report to be released about his inconclusive 2006 war in Lebanon could determine whether Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert holds onto his job long enough to try to make peace with the Palestinians this year
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel has no intention of adhering to the US-backed &quot;road map&quot; peace plan it endorsed last year.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A top UN official said Friday that the Mideast peace process has suffered in recent weeks: more violence, Israel&#39;s prime minister apparently backing away from an international peace plan, and the Palestinians still far from implementing
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VIENNA, March 10 -- A year of contentious talks on the future status of Kosovo ended Saturday in a bitter deadlock over a U.N. plan that would set the disputed Serbian province on the road to independence.