An EU delegation met Israel's president Shimon Peres today, as diplomatic efforts gathered pace to halt a growing toll of civilian Palestinian deaths that has stoked international outrage.

The Red Cross said that an ambulance post was hit during what it called the most terrifying night of violence yet in Gaza

Israeli shells slammed into Gaza and ground forces edged closer to major population centers, taking more civilian lives

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As worldwide condemnation over Israel's punishing offensive against the civilian population of Gaza gathers pace, allegations of the use of phosphorus shells in the coastal strip have now surfaced.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Damascus, where he held talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad, before flying onto Beirut

Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza's major population centers on Tuesday and attacked new sites, including a U.N. school

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As Israel continued to pound the coastal strip and its population on the tenth day of its devastating attack, Palestinians residents from the northern Gaza Strip left their homes and were seeking shelter in Gaza City

The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever in the heart of the Green Zone on Monday

Israel consolidated its hold on parts of the Gaza Strip on Monday, seizing high-rise buildings on the outskirts of the territory's biggest city as a stream of world leaders headed for the region to press for a truce.

A woman hiding among Iranian pilgrims with a bomb strapped under her black robe killed more than three dozen people on Sunday outside a Baghdad mosque during ceremonies commemorating the death of one of Shiite Islam's most revered saints