A senior Israeli official arrived in Cairo Sunday morning for talks on reaching a cease-fire, Egyptian officials said.
Israel continued to bomb Palestinian targets in Gaza, including the media operations of Hamas, from the sea and air for the fifth day.
"There are some indications that there could be a cease-fire soon," Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said, but there are "no guarantees."
Israel made nearly 200 airstrikes in Gaza early Saturday, the Israeli military said, destroying the prime minister's headquarters.
Kim Kardashian deleted a tweet supportive of Israel on Friday after she received dozens of anti-Semitic tweets from some of her 17 million followers.
The IDF claims more than 500 missiles have hit Israel and has called up 75,000 reservists to prepare for a possible ground attack on Gaza.
Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil arrived in Gaza Friday to show solidarity with the Palestinians after Israel pounded more than 130 targets overnight, escalating the two days of fighting between the Hamas militants and the Israeli military.
U.S. stock index futures point to a flat open Friday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report.
The hacker collective Anonymous said Thursday that it is harassing and disabling Israeli websites to protest the bombing of Gaza.
Israelis and Palestinians alike braced for an escalation of the Gaza conflict, and a possible land invasion.
Coinciding with its "Pillar of Defense" operation, the Israeli Defense Force has unleashed a Twitter campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
As Israel and Gaza escalate their attacks, world leaders begin to choose sides in this latest Mideast gladiator fight.
More than 200 rockets have been lobbed into Israel, killing three. Dozens of strikes on Gaza killed 13. Is this the Gaza War, the sequel?
The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Consumer Price Index for September.
The United Nations has called for an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba that has been in place for over half a century.
An Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman position paper reveals the ways Israel may "punish" the Palestinians for seeking statehood at the U.N.
An Israeli air strike in Gaza has killed Hamas military chief Jabari.
On Tuesday, Palestinians began the two-week process of exhuming former President Yasser Arafat's body, under suspicion he may have been poisoned to death.
Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations to admit Palestine as a “non-member observer state."
Israel spent the weekend returning fire coming at it from two sides: Gaza and Syria. More than 100 rockets have landed in Southern Israel, and the IDF scored at least one "direct hit" on a Syrian military vehicle.
In Doha, Syrian opposition groups in exile formed the new Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, which will incorporate the SNC.
Israeli forces responded to threats from Syria in the Golan Heights and rockets from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.