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The Oslo peace agreements say there should be two states, and things will get trickier once the UN votes on Palestine's de facto statehood.

Morsi seemed to pull back from his attempt to claim unchecked authority, but the opposition still held a major protest on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is at odds with high-level judges after issuing a controversial decree that critics have called a power grab.

Ismail Haniya and his radical Muslim movement have the upper hand in Gaza - political capital they may use to win West Bank elections.

The Egyptian president’s office said it was committed to engaging "all political forces" and stressed the "temporary nature" of the decree.

Mohammed Morsi's government has the hard job of rebuilding Egypt's economy, but the IMF's $4.8 billion will make it a bit easier.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians began demonstrating Friday, a day after the president issued a decree expanding his office’s powers.

Cairo's Tahrir Square was the epicenter of the successful Egyptian Revolution of 2011 that shook the country's old governmental structure to its very core.

Egypt has been a powder keg many times in the past five millennia, and it may have exploded again Friday.

One day after the Egypt-brokered cease-fire, Gazans spilled into the streets to celebrate, as if they had actually won a war with Israel.

A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people Wednesday night at Shi'ite processions in Rawalpindi, where Pakistan's army is headquartered. The attack took place a day before the Muslim leaders, including the Iranian and Egyptian presidents, gather for a rare summit in the capital city of Islamabad.

“John Doe Duffel Bag” has been arrested for the murder of three Brooklyn shopkeepers. The New York Police Department has identified the man as a resident of Staten Island.

Pro-Palestinian sentiment has a much louder voice in Egypt's government than in Washington. After the Gaza ceasefire, here's how it could be a problem.

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton announced a cease-fire agreement from Cairo, as fighting continued in Gaza and a bus exploded in Israel.

The Morsi government stands to gain a lot from brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The hard part? Making it happen.

Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt on the eighth day of intensive Israeli fire on the Gaza Strip and militant rocket attacks out of the enclave, Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.

China, whose public support for the Palestinians has been a key characteristic of its policy in the Middle East, Wednesday said it would host an envoy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the crisis in Gaza.

Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire continued Tuesday night as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Jerusalem.

Keen to broker a truce between Hamas and Israel, Egypt is making some bold proclamations on the prospect of peace.

Whether the Israel-Gaza struggle ends in a cease-fire or a ground invasion, the world is finding there are no easy answers to end it.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hastily departed to the Middle East Tuesday from her Asia tour with President Barack Obama attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, to join efforts to broker truce between Israel and Palestinian militants.