A shootout at a mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah between Hamas security men and a more extreme Islamist group called the Warriors of God ended early Saturday with 22 dead, including the group's leader and a senior Hamas security officer. ...more

August 16, 2009

Here we go again. Following Israel's war with Hizballah in 2006 in Lebanon, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said, to much mockery in the Arab world, that had he known Israel would respond so decisively Hizballah would never have initiated hostilities. ...more

March 7, 2009

No city can be prepared for the kind of killers who struck Mumbai over the past three days. About 30 well-armed men carried out coordinated attacks on hospitals, tourist hotels, upscale restaurants, a train station and a Jewish center. ...more

November 29, 2008

France has had contacts with the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas "for several months," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday. ...more

May 20, 2008