Israeli authorities arrested a retired American university lecturer this week on suspicion of selling ancient artifacts illegally to U.S. tourists, they said Wednesday.
As word spread that she failed a drug test, the actress attended a Beverly Hills gathering to mark Yom Kippur
The U.S. Embassy in Jordan warned Wednesday that "credible information" has been received about a possible imminent threat in the region of the Gulf of Aqaba, the branch of the Red Sea that lies between Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
The State Department has revised a travel warning for Israel after the Israeli government protested on the grounds it unfairly singled out an Israeli resort area.
It was a timely reminder that four years of relative calm on the Israeli-Lebanese border cannot be taken for granted.
One person was killed and five others injured when a rocket landed in front of a hotel Monday in the city of Aqaba, Jordan, the official Jordanian news agency, Petra, reported.
At least 24 Russian tourists have been killed in one of Israel's deadliest traffic accidents when their bus plunged down a ravine, throwing nearly all of the passengers out of the vehicle.
CNN's Paula Hancocks reports on a horrific bus accident near a resort town in Israel.
Two Palestinians left Gaza across the recently breached border with Egypt and then entered Israel to carry out a suicide bombing Monday, a militant spokesman said.
A Jordanian court Thursday sentenced three Syrians and an Iraqi to death for last year's attack on U.S. warships in the port of Aqaba that killed a Jordanian soldier, according to a government statement.
Israel is a different place than it was six months ago.
Egyptian officials say several people have been arrested following three deadly explosions at a Red Sea resort town, while a terrorism expert has predicted there will be more attacks in the region.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has issued a claim of responsibility for a rocket attack in Jordan just hours after Jordanian authorities said they had arrested the "prime suspect" in the attack on two U.S. warships that left a Jordanian soldier dead.
Jordan has arrested a Syrian man it calls the "prime suspect" in the rocket attack intended for two U.S. warships that killed a Jordanian soldier, but three other suspects escaped into Iraq, authorities in Amman said Monday.
Jordanian authorities have arrested several people they think might lead to the attackers who fired rockets at U.S. warships at the port of Aqaba, a Jordanian official said Saturday.
An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for rocket attacks Friday that targeted but missed two U.S. military ships in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba.
Carpets and insulation hung from the gaping facade of the luxury Hilton Hotel at Taba, Egypt, where an explosion sheared outer rooms of a 10-story wing of the hotel.
Three bomb blasts late Thursday rocked Egyptian resorts where Israelis were vacationing during Jewish holidays, killing about 40 people and wounding more than 100.
A voice claiming to be terrorist leader Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi says his group was planning to bomb the Jordanian intelligence headquarters in Amman for what he said was the kingdom's collaboration with the United States and Israel.
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