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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, as the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, looks on, after signing an agreement in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Feb 6, 2012. The main Palestinian ...  

RAMALLAH, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Monday's Doha declaration, announced by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, marks a long-awaited breakthrough on forming a Palestinian unity government, but has met with doubts about whether ...  

Gaza’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s visit to Tehran over the weekend and statements he and his hosts made about recognition of Israel served a severe blow to acceptance of the recently signed Doha agreement, which already has been receiving mixed ...  

Senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar slammed a Palestinian unity deal as a “mistake” that has thrown the Islamist movement into crisis, in an interview with Egypt’s official MENA agency published on Sunday. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal signed ...  

after fruitful talks between the two parties last week produced a reunification plan. Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas' co-founder and prominent Gaza Strip political figure, lambasted the accord reached last Monday between Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and ...  

Speaking to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Iran's supreme leader says Gaza-based organization must be wary of "infiltration by compromisers" in apparent reference to Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal. Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with ...  

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says the Israel is consumed with the thought of threatening and occupying other Muslim states like Iran and its aggression is not limited to the occupied Palestine territories. “Threats [by Israel ...  

NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC called the weekend visit to Iran of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, another telling reminder that the terrorist organization remains absolutely intent on Israel's destruction. (Logo: ...  

Fast Jihad does not want to relinquish territory to Slow Jihad. An update on this story. "Hamas strongman in Gaza rejects unity deal," by Mohammed Daragmeh for the Associated Press, February 12: RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A rare public rift broke open Sunday in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic...  

Zahar calls Mashaal-Abbas agreement a ‘mistake’; At Tehran rally with Haniyeh, Ahmadinejad says nuclear program advances to be announced soon. The dispute within Hamas over last week’s Qatar-sponsored reconciliation pact with Fatah reached its peak ...  

In direct contradiction to a statement earlier this month, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal is quietly moving his headquarters to Qatar. According to the LIGNET intelligence website, Mashaal announced Friday he will “temporarily” be carrying out ...  

Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar attacked the Qatari-sponsored ... Speaking in an interview with Egyptian news agency Asharq al Awsat published on Saturday, Zahar claimed that Hamas's political chief in exile Khaled Mashaal did not consult him or other members ...  

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran — part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the pariah regime in Syria.The movement's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, wants Hamas to be part of the broader Islamist political rise triggered by the popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world. For this, Hamas needs new friends like the...  

TEHRAN (AP) — An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the Hamas prime minister of Gaza has arrived in Tehran. The visit may be an attempt by the Palestinian militant movement to avoid snubbing Iran even as it cultivates ties with the wealthy Gulf. The Friday report by Fars says Ismail Haniyeh will meet Iranian leaders, despite what the agency claimed were efforts by Gulf countries like Qatar and Kuwait to stop the visit.Some in Hamas...  

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal are close to reaching agreement ... late Sunday to agree on the identity of the prime minister who would head the unity government, the sources said. The unity government will ...