Rice, Olmert and Abbas meet amid low expectations
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday for talks overshadowed by a Palestinian unity deal that ended factional fighting but cast a new cloud over prospects for peace with Israel.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan &#151; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw herself at two intractable Mideast problems &#151; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq &#151; during a brief trip to the region, and encountered the reality that the U.S. has few options other than patience.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to overcome disputes over Jewish settlements that have paralyzed U.S.-backed peace talks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet on Tuesday in a last-minute attempt to get stalled peace talks going before a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that a "two-state solution" in the Middle East was in jeopardy and described a narrow window of opportunity to push Israel and the Palestinians toward peace.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Sunday for their second summit in a month
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An American-sponsored meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders ended Monday with little more than a promise to meet again.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday there would be no major breakthroughs at US-sponsored peace talks this fall, prompting a Palestinian threat to skip the gathering. "If Olmert says there'll just be a declaration, it's not worth going," said Nimr Hamad, an adviser to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he would hold a trilateral meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on February 19.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Thursday to try to end an impasse over Jewish settlement building that has paralyzed month-old peace talks.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to try to bridge his differences with Israel over what a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference might achieve.
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Hoping to capitalize on recent positive developments between Israel and the Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and expressed U.S. commitment to a "viable and contiguous" Palestinian state.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of their first meeting in more than four years as the United States seeks to spur renewed movement in the stalled peace process.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel on Saturday in an uphill bid to revive stalled peace talks after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a defiant appeal for acceptance of his pact with Hamas.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a rare three-way summit.
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Top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, under U.S. pressure to start peace talks, met on Monday on a plan to begin tackling some of the thorniest issues after a month-long impasse over Jewish settlements.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday for talks overshadowed by a Palestinian unity deal that has cast a new cloud over prospects for peacemaking.