Kuwait has been on alert since a suicide bomber killed 27 people in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the capital, Kuwait City, on June 26.

'Washington Post': Campaign is an independently run initiative that is separate from the overall military effort being waged against the extremist movement.

Piron will be departing parliament in favor of "a senior educational position," the secularist party said.

For the past few weeks, the talk about Abbas’s possible resignation has sparked a debate among Palestinians as to his true intentions.

The 35-year-old Jerusalem resident attends synagogue daily and spends hours every morning learning Torah, but by afternoon, evening and night, he's a marketing consultant to more than 100 clients.

A number of names have been bandied about, yet nobody in Israel can say for certain who will be the next leader of the Palestinians.

Threats to the rigs include surface-to-sea supersonic missiles like the Yakhont, in possession of Hezbollah, which can fire it from the Lebanese or Syrian coastlines.

Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat from Maryland, announced her support for the deal on Wednesday morning.