Israel has failed to show it will conduct an impartial investigation of allegations that it committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive last year, an international human rights group said Sunday. U.N. investigators leveled the war crimes allegations against Israel in an official report submitted last year. In its ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he had asked the United States to clarify its offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel before he would announce any decision to resume the negotiations. "Yesterday I met with an American delegation and we held an Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian trilateral meeting," Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President ...

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas's Palestinian rivals denounced the Islamist movement on Saturday for expressing regret over the deaths of Israeli civilians during the Gaza war a year ago. A spokesman for the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he was "stunned" at the remark in a report to the United Nations this week and said Hamas should apologize ...