Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States and Israel plan to attack two countries in the Middle East as part of a conspiracy to apply pressure on Iran. Read the full story

Under President Barack Obama, the United States no longer provides Israel with automatic support at the United Nations where the Jewish state faces a constant barrage of criticism and condemnation. Read the full story

The U.S. is negotiating with Egypt a proposal to make the Middle East a region free of nuclear weapons, as the U.S. seeks to prevent Iran from derailing a monthlong U.N. conference on nuclear nonproliferation that begins Monday. Read the full story

Israel may come under new pressure next month at a UN meeting on atomic weapons as the United States, Britain and France consider backing Egypt’s call for a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear arms, envoys said. Read the full story

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has refused to visit the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Read the full story

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel that initiating a new military conflict in the Middle East would not save it from downfall. Read the full story

Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Read the full story

Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Israel of fighting like children in an interview with The New Yorker on Thursday regarding the prospects of peace in the Middle East. Read the full story

The Financial Times views Israel as the key cause of problems in the Middle East, according to a study published by a London-based media monitoring organization this week. Read the full story

A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon, the Defense Department said. Read the full story

Protesters chanting “Tony Blair, war criminal” gathered outside the London inquiry into the Iraq War on Friday, where the former British prime minister was to publicly explain why he backed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Read the full story

Getting the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to negotiate, or even to agree to the framework in which negotiations will take place, “is just really hard,” US President Barack Obama said in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, as the president was completing his first year in office. Read the full story