JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy began a round of meetings on Saturday aimed at relaunching negotiations, while the Palestinian leader said he feared the 20-year-old peace process with Israel was close to collapse. George Mitchell, the U.S. mediator, met Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, an Israeli spokesman said. In keeping with Mitchell ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank Friday, as tension over land and holy sites mounted ahead of a relaunch of U.S.-mediated peace negotiations. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of trying to wreck peace efforts and of risking a "war of religion" across the ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Six Palestinian family members were killed in a car collision with an Israeli military vehicle in the occupied West Bank Friday, Palestinian police and the Israeli army said. The circumstances of the accident were unclear but regardless of the findings of an investigation which the Israeli army said was being held in cooperation with the Israeli ...

Israeli police battled Muslim protesters in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday after storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound -- one of Islam's holiest sites -- when protesters threw stones after the main weekly prayers, an AFP photographer witnessed. Police and hospitals said several dozens of people were wounded in the clashes, which ended with police leaving the hilltop compound after negotiating ...