Ethan Bronner New York Times

American officials who have assessed the likely Iranian responses to any attack by Israel on its nuclear program believe that Iran would retaliate by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style attacks on United States civilian and military personnel overseas.

Israel's borders erupted into deadly clashes on Sunday as thousands of Palestinians -- marching from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank -- confronted Israeli troops to mark the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israel's creation. As many as nine Palestinians were reported killed and scores injured in the unprecedented wave of coordinated protests. T...

The Arab League asked the United Nations Security Council on Saturday to impose a no-flight zone over Libya in hopes of halting Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's attacks on his own people, providing the rebels a tincture of hope even as they were driven back from a long stretch of road it had captured in the three-week war. The extraordinary move by the 22...

The Palestinian  leadership announced Saturday that it planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections by September, an apparent response to the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt calling for greater democracy and government accountability.The decision was announced in the West Bank city of Ramallah after a meeting of the executive committe...

Egypt was engulfed in a fifth day of protests on Saturday, but an attempt by President Hosni Mubarak to salvage his 30-year rule by firing his cabinet and calling out the army appeared to backfire as troops and demonstrators fraternized and called for the president himself to resign.By the early evening, as protesters filled the streets in defiance...

An Israeli military court convicted two soldiers on Sunday of using a 9-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to check bags for explosives in Israel's 2008-9 Gaza war.The court said that the two soldiers, both infantry sergeants, had taken part in an operation to seize an apartment building in Tel al-Hawa, a southern suburb of G...

American officials who have assessed the likely Iranian responses to any attack by Israel on its nuclear program believe that Iran would retaliate by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style attacks on United States civilian and military personnel overseas.

Israel's borders erupted into deadly clashes on Sunday as thousands of Palestinians -- marching from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank -- confronted Israeli troops to mark the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israel's creation. As many as nine Palestinians were reported killed and scores injured in the unprecedented wave of coordinated protests. T...

The Arab League asked the United Nations Security Council on Saturday to impose a no-flight zone over Libya in hopes of halting Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's attacks on his own people, providing the rebels a tincture of hope even as they were driven back from a long stretch of road it had captured in the three-week war. The extraordinary move by the 22...

The Palestinian  leadership announced Saturday that it planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections by September, an apparent response to the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt calling for greater democracy and government accountability.The decision was announced in the West Bank city of Ramallah after a meeting of the executive committe...

Egypt was engulfed in a fifth day of protests on Saturday, but an attempt by President Hosni Mubarak to salvage his 30-year rule by firing his cabinet and calling out the army appeared to backfire as troops and demonstrators fraternized and called for the president himself to resign.By the early evening, as protesters filled the streets in defiance...

An Israeli military court convicted two soldiers on Sunday of using a 9-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to check bags for explosives in Israel's 2008-9 Gaza war.The court said that the two soldiers, both infantry sergeants, had taken part in an operation to seize an apartment building in Tel al-Hawa, a southern suburb of G...