Russia said on Tuesday Syria\’s shooting down of a Turkish warplane should not be seen as a provocation and warned world powers against using the incident to push for stronger action against Damascus.
Turkey blocked the participation of Israel in next month\’s NATO Summit in Chicago, a Turkish newspaper reported.\n
A secret U.S. military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Arab League stepped up sanctions against Syria over its violent suppression of a popular revolt.
Turkey\’s foreign minister said his country threatened to veto an Israeli initiative in NATO in an effort to hurt Israel in international forums.
A gunman dressed in police uniform opened fire at a youth camp of Norway\’s ruling political party on Friday, killing at least 80 people, hours after a bomb killed seven in the government district in the capital Oslo.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli, but his youngest son and three grandchildren under the age of 12 were killed, a government spokesman said.
Israel should be invited to join NATO, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder wrote in a German newspaper.
Why should any supporter of an embattled Israel want to risk the future of the Jewish State on a president known for the temperamental, quixotic and unpredictable whims that guide his decision making?
I was with Obama in Israel and in Europe, and I saw how he focused on the urgency of the Iranian threat. I saw how he used his discussions in Israel to remind the European leaders that Israelis are justified in seeing Iran with nuclear weapons as an existential threat — and that for Israel\’s sake and our own we must put far more pressure on Iran if we are to stop it from going nuclear.
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