BEIRUT (AP) — A previously unknown group on Monday claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on northern Israel, reflecting Lebanon’s increasingly dangerous mix of armed organisations.

AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Monday ordered the dispatch of food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza, which suffers a shortage in basic commodities, a Royal Court statement said.

RAMALLAH (Reuters) — Western powers bolstered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ emergency government on Monday, vowing to end a 15-month-old embargo after he sacked ruling Hamas Islamists who seized the Gaza Strip.

As fighting at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon entered its second month, three army soldiers were killed in combat. A Lebanese security source and a Palestinian political source said the army appeared to be close to crushing Fatah al-Islam’s positions on the outskirts of the coastal camp …

The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the …

At least seven Afghan children have been killed in a US air strike in eastern Afghanistan in the latest civilian deaths from the invaders’ troops. “Early reporting has that seven children at the madrassah died as a result of the strike,” the US occupants and invaders said.

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, has described the emergency government that was formed by decrees from PA chief Mahmoud Abbas as “unpatriotic and illegitimate”.

The US and the EU are to normalise ties with the new Palestinian government, lifting embargoes on aid to support an administration without Hamas.

Hamas militants overran the main security headquarters of the Fatah organization in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and targeted remaining key facilities under Fatah control. VOA’s Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem at least 25 people were killed in Thursday’s fighting, bringing to nearly 100 the number of people killed since …

Khaled Hosseini focuses on Afghan women’s struggles in Kite Runner follow-up.For a painfully shy fiction writer who insists he has no political agenda, Khaled Hosseini learned the power of international celebrity — and his own voice — in a hurry. Just before he became a best-selling author, the San Jose-area …