JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers today approved the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and a military pullout from the West Bank town of Jericho within days in overtures intended to improve ...

Jericho, famed for the biblical story of the walls that came tumbling down, is the first of five West Bank population centers from which Israel will be pulling back its troops over the coming weeks.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops took down their Star of David flag, removed a roadblock and handed the town of Jericho to Palestinian control yesterday, boosting Mideast peace efforts and sending a ...

JERUSALEM — With less than three weeks to go before Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, many questions remain unanswered about how the handover to a ...

JERICHO, West Bank -- A U.N. committee voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision that angered Israel ...

As part of the handover, 17 Palestinian fugitives in Jericho were taken off Israel's wanted list, Erekat said. The fate of two top militants jailed under international supervision in Jericho, ...

Jericho is located east of Jerusalem and about ten miles north of the Dead Sea. Qumran, where the Dead Sea scrolls were found in 1947, is about ten miles southwest.

JERICHO, West Bank — A U.N. committee voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision that angered Israel ...