A rapprochement betweenHamasand Tehran is under way almost three years after a breach over the Palestinian party's refusal to back the Syrian government in the civil war, and amid its current political isolation following the demise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The rebuilding of the relationship is likely to dismay Israel and the US, which ...

Khalil al-Hayya, a prominent Hamas leaderin the Gaza Strip and head of the groups parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, stressed that there have been concerted efforts to procure financial andmilitary support to cover its losses following thedecline of Iranian backing. The dip in Iranian support came as the result of its and Hamas' ...