Israel's Gaza commander resigns
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A senior Israeli army commander has resigned in the wake of a reported row with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Ghedi resigns after a long-running feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Israel dismissed six reservist  military officers on Sunday for threatening to disobey an order  to evacuate Jewish settlements under a Gaza pullout plan, the  military said.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned on Friday, a day after admitting to sex crimes against women employees in a case that has brought unprecedented disgrace on an Israeli head of state.
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The governor of Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province resigns, amid continuing violence.
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Hamas leaders have apparently quit  Damascus following Israeli threats to target them for  assassination in retaliation for a Palestinian double suicide  bombing last week, Israel's defense minister said on Monday.
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Hamas leaders have apparently quit Damascus following Israeli threats to target them for assassination in retaliation for a Palestinian double suicide bombing last week, Israel's defense minister said on Monday.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his Hamas-led cabinet will resign in the next two days to make way for a unity government with the rival Fatah faction, a government official said on Tuesday.
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The news director of a U.S.-funded Arab language satellite television network that was accused of airing anti-Israeli propaganda has resigned.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lifts his threat to resign over the Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israel dismissed a group of reservist military officers on Sunday who threatened they would disobey an order to evacuate Jewish settlements under a Gaza pullout plan, one of the officers said.
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom  Ridge, who headed President Bush's efforts to build up domestic  security following the Sept. 11 attacks, resigned on Tuesday.
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The Israeli army last night began withdrawing from Palestinian areas of the northern Gaza strip, winding down the largest assault on the territory in recent years and leaving more than 100 Palestinians dead and widespread destruction of homes.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces  out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest  offensives in four years of conflict that began 16 days ago and  that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late Thursday ordered a troop pullout from a refugee camp, defense officials said, signaling that a two-week offensive in northern Gaza that has left more than 100 Palestinians dead could be easing.    The move came hours after Sharon announced that all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza Strip starting next summer and the operation will last 12 weeks...
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Homeland Security Secretary Tom  Ridge, who has headed President Bush's efforts to build up  domestic security following the Sept. 11 attacks, resigned on  Tuesday.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian Authority said yesterday that it will disband a small security unit tainted by accusations of abuse, an initial step toward overhauling its bloated network of overlapping and competing security forces.