Mideast Peace Talks

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  Emmanuel Macron Chides Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu On Settlements, Urges New Mideast Talks

  French President Emmanuel Macron told Israel's visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Paris opposes Israel's expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory as he urged fresh Middle East peace talks. Stressing that international law should be "respected by all", Macron said: "I am thinking here of (Israel's) continued ...

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  France's Fabius Heads to Mideast to Sell Peace Initiative

  France's foreign minister heads to the Middle East this weekend with an initiative aimed at bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks under an international framework amid growing regional instability.

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  France Hopes for Relaunch of Mideast Peace Talks After Israel Vote

  France on Wednesday called for a relaunch of the Middle East process based on a two-state solution, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a closely-fought election.

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  Wave of Violence Fuels Israeli-Palestinian Tension: Timeline

  It has been a difficult year for Israelis and Palestinians, with the failure of peace talks and a string of violent incidents that shows no signs of ending. Here is a look at some key recent events:

• John Kerry to resume Mideast peace talks after a pause

  To both critics and supporters, it was "classic" John Kerry. A day before the formal end of Kerry's quixotic, nine-month effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the Secretary of State was surreptitiously taped making a comment that provoked a political firestorm in Washington.

• US looking for way forward in Mideast peace talks

  Washington is keeping up efforts to put Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations back on track despite "unhelpful steps" taken by both sides in the past day, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.

• Amid Ukraine crisis, Obama to meet Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Mideast peace

  President Barack Obama takes a break from the Ukraine crisis to hold potentially difficult talks on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on U.S. efforts to keep Middle East peace negotiations alive.

• NSA spying threatens to hamper US foreign policy

  Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Rome and Paris to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran but was confronted by outrage over the sweep and scope of US snooping abroad. President Barack Obama already has defended America's surveillance dragnet to leaders of Russia, Mexico, Brazil, France and Germany and was even quizzed about it during his ...

• John Kerry, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton hold talks

  US Secretary of State John Kerry and the European Union's foreign policy chief held talks Sunday in London on Iran, Syria, Egypt, the Mideast peace process and other matters.

• Palestinian prisoners to be freed in Mideast peace talks: Israel

  Israel has agreed to release some "hardcore" Palestinian prisoners as part of US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to restart Mideast peace talks, but it will not meet other longstanding Palestinian demands before negotiations resume, an Israeli official said on Saturday.

• Agreement on basis to resume Mideast peace talks: John Kerry

  US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that an agreement has been reached between the Israelis and Palestinians for the basis to resume Middle East peace talks.

• US admits setback in Mideast peace talks

  Palestinian politicians rebuffed on Thursday a hard-fought peace blueprint thrashed out by US Secretary of State John Kerry with president Mahmud Abbas in a major blow to his marathon peace efforts.

• US Secretary of State John Kerry to attend Syria talks on May 22, visit Mideast, Africa

  US Secretary of State John Kerry will attend talks on Syria in Amman on Wednesday, the State Department said, as major powers try to bring the Syrian government and opposition to peace talks in June.

• Palestinians deserve a sovereign state and an end to occupation by Israel: Barack Obama

  President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is not giving up on stalled peace talks in the Mideast but that continued Israeli settlement-building in West Bank is not helping the cause.

• With statehood, Palestine ready to end all claims

  The Palestinians are ready to end all historic claims against Israel once they establish their state in the lands Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday, addressing a long-standing Israeli demand.In an interview with Israel TV, Abbas also said negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netany...