Khaled Mashaal

Sarkozy pledges France's support on Iran

French president, foreign minister meet with Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik before she delivered keynote speech before nearly a thousand European MPs at 'unprecedented' Paris conference in support of Israel

Hamas says ready to deal with a new U.S. administration

Exiled Hamas politburo leader Khaled Meshaal said here on Wednesday that his group is ready to deal with a new U.S. administration led by president-elect Barak Obama. Meshaal made the remarks to the press after a meeting with...

Mixed reaction appears in Mideast to Obama's win in U.S. presidential election

The Middle East, a strategic stronghold of global geopolitics for the United States, has responded with a mixed mood of expectation, wait-and-see approach to U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's Mideast policy, following his...

Obama Tells Abbas: I Support Dividing Jerusalem

Of course, this only comes out today. Beyond this, according to Abbas, Obama asked him not to say anything. Which of course has been Obama’s modus operandi thus far: not to really show his true colors until after he is...

World looks forward to new era with US

PARIS, Nov 04, 2008 (AFP) - A widespread anticipation of a new era in relations with the United States spread around the world Tuesday, even before the result of the US presidential election was known. While the spotlight...

Hizbullah: Parts of Upper Galilee Belong to Lebanon

The Hizbullah terrorist organization is claiming that several farms in the Upper Galilee in the north of Israel actually belong to Lebanon. "Zionist terrorist organizations moved the border line from what was established in...

Exiled Hamas chief to meet Lebanese leaders

Khaled Meshaal is the leader of the Palestinian militant group Meshaal has lived in exile in Syria's capital, Damascus, since 2001 Visit comes after Syria and Lebanon established diplomatic relations He has led Hamas since 2004...

Lebanese prime minister in Ankara for talks

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) shakes hands with his Lebanese counterpart, Fouad Siniora, before their talks on Monday. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora met with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on...

Hamas to boycott unity talks if arrests continue

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas will boycott Egyptian sponsored reconciliation talks unless its rival, Fatah, halts a campaign of "arrests and repression" against the Islamist group in the West Bank, a top Hamas official said on...

Abbas to attend Cairo dialogue opening as PLO chief

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will participate in the opening session of an Egyptian-hosted national dialogue as head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). "He will not attend as the chief of Fatah and will...