‘The window or door on a two-state solution could shut — and that would be disastrous for all concerned,’ the new secretary said during confirmation hearings last week

Mouaz al-Khatib reiterates that he’d sit down for talks with Assad to ‘ease the pain of the Syrian people’ although his goal is to overthrow the regime, peacefully

The former New York mayor died the same day as Daniel Pearl, the murdered Jewish journalist he quoted on his tombstone

He stuttered through eight hours of grilling, but senators were grandstanding rather than raising issues of substance

Former first lady, who’s coy about a possible presidential bid in 2016, shattered records for the number of countries visited by a top US diplomat

Outgoing US defense secretary says US intent on preventing transfer of sophisticated weapons to terrorists, warns of Iran’s export of manpads

Alarms heard throughout southern Israel; no reports of any incoming rockets

Violence against women has surged since the fall of Mubarak, with the UN citing 25 attacks in one week against female protesters in Tahrir