Former State Department official Martin Indyk says US policy towards the Middle East has undergone a transformation - and says Obama will stand behind protesters in Egypt.

A few more facts have been coming about Vyacheslav Danilenko, the Russian scientist who has supposedly been helping Iran develop nuclear weapons.

After all the weeks of frenzy and speculation, all the talk of a first strike, all the hyperventilating in the international media - together with the banging of war drums in the Knesset and the mapping out of strategies by rightwing military adventurists - that's all the IAEA could come up with?

Netanyahu is suggesting the prisoner swap deal has been entirely of his own making. But is that true?

Could the possibility of further Israel-Palestine peace talks be compromised by talk of a new settlement in Jerusalem?