By David Gollust Washington 25 January 2006 The United States Wednesday welcomed the Palestinian elections but reaffirmed it would not deal with the radical Islamic group Hamas, which could be propell...
By Jim Teeple Ramallah 25 January 2006 Palestinians voted under heavy security on Wednesday to select a new 132-seat Legislative Council or parliament. Palestinian women supporters of Hamas gather out...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 25 January 2006 Palestinian family look at a voting list outside a polling station in the West Bank City of Jenin, 25 January 2006 Palestinians are voting for a new parliament...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 25 January 2006 Palestinians are voting in their first parliamentary elections in ten years to select a new 132-seat Legislative Council. Thousands of Palestinian police have b...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 24 January 2006 Election campaign posters for upcoming Palestinian parliamentary election hang over a street in al-Amari refugee camp near West Bank town of Ramallah The campai...
By Jim Teeple Ramallah 23 January 2006 Politicians in the Palestinian territories wrapped up final day of campaigning Monday, ahead of crucial vote Wednesday to elect new legislature Politicians in th...
By Meredith Buel Washington 23 January 2006 Palestinian men attend a Fatah pre-election rally in front of a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, in Gaza City, Monday Jan. 23, 2006 On...
By Michael Bowman Washington 08 January 2006 The Palestinians' top peace negotiator is urging Israel's acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to help restart peace talks, once the upheaval surrounding th...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 04 January 2006 Egyptian border police fired warning shots late Wednesday to prevent Palestinians from cutting through a fence that divides Egypt from the Gaza Strip. The incid...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 04 January 2006 Palestinian gunmen have blocked access to the border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, and stormed at least four government buildings nearby. The viole...