For Secretary of State John F. Kerry, diplomacy has centered on what might be called the art of the interim deal. He has tackled two of the worlds toughest issues the Iranian nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian problem and has fashioned tentative formulas outlining the shape of a final accord, even though the parties are far from such comprehensive ...

An Israeli minister has insulted the US Secretary of State John Kerry over his plan for the so-called peace process. Based on Israeli media reports, Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya'alon said on Tuesday that Kerrys proposed plan was not worth the paper it was written on. Ya'alon reportedly made the remarks in private conversations with other ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israelis and Palestinians remained committed to peace talks and were on course to wrap up a full deal by April. Speaking at the end of his second visit to the region in just a week, Kerry said the two sides were discussing a framework for a final-status accord to resolve the core issues ...

There is an odd sort of atmosphere today around the soon-to-fail Israel-Palestine talks. A dramatic gesture by the United States, presenting itsown security plansto both Israel and the Palestinians, has engendered mostly yawns. Yet the events of recent days have clarified the likely results of these talks, despite the ongoing secrecy around them. Secretary ...

(Reuters) - A senior Palestinian official said the United States was asking Palestinians to make security concessions in peace talks withIsraelin order to silence the Jewish state's criticism of world power diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program. The accusations by Yasser Abed Rabbo, who joined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting with ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry concluded his visit to Israel on Friday noon, leaving behind what seems to be unbridgeble gaps between Israel and the Palestinians amid the faltering peace talks. During his three-day visit, Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, and a short cordial ...

The new Iranian nuclear deal and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace are expected to be on the agenda when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds talks on December 5 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry arrived in Israel following a trip to Europe. Netanyahu has been a vocal opponent of the deal between Iran and six world ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a high-profile visit by President Barack Obama early this year. Tensions burst into the open during a swing through the region by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. In an interview broadcast ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - US Secretary of State John Kerry, faced with grim Israeli and Palestinian assessments of progress in peace talks, said on Wednesday that Washington was not giving up on a deal. "As in any negotiation there will be moments of up and moments of down, and it goes back and forth," Kerry said in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank,...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="180"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the United States will maintain the current track of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he helped launch in July. He added that Washington sees 'no other plan'. Speaking ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 27 (MNA) Speaking in front of the UN General Assembly on Thursday, the Palestinian president called on the organizations member states to put pressure on Israel, so that it would give up on its settlement construction program, seen as a major obstacle for current peace talks to end the decades-long conflict. Time is running out, the ...

Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas says the prospects of a peace deal between the PA and Israel have never been such bleak as they are now. Abbas made the remarks in his speech to the 68th United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. Time is running out, and the window of peace is narrowing and the opportunities are diminishing,...

TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) The so-called peace talks between Palestine and Israel resumed in July, with the stated goal of ending the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the so-called two-state solution, after a three-year hiatus. The key issues on the table to be resolved are borders, the future of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, ...