US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Having sought to purchase arms from the United States to no avail, Gamal Abdel Nasser reaches an agreement with the Soviet Union to buy arms; the deal is signed with Czechoslovakia and includes more...

The two contracting states "affirm their desire for the maintenance of security and peace and their determination and resolve to settle all their international disputes by peaceful means." They...

Following the 26 July election of the third Knesset, David Ben-Gurion, the leader of Mapai, assumes the position of Prime Minister of Israel.

The measure condemns Israel's attack on Syria of 11 December 1955 as a flagrant violation of the cease-fire provisions of Security Council Resolution 54 (1948), of the terms of the General Armistice...

Egypt prevents the Greek vessel Pannegia, carrying a cargo of cement, from traveling through the Suez Canal en route from Haifa to Eilat.

In an address in Alexandria, President Gamal Abdel Nasser announces that Egypt has nationalized the Suez Canal Company: all company assets in Egypt have been frozen, and stockholders would be...

In an address to the national convention of his Mapai Party, Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion says that peace and security wil not be established in the Middle East unless Israel is assured...

Israeli paratroopers are air-dropped east of the Suez Canal, near the Mitla Pass.

Israeli border police killed Palestinian citizens of Israel in Kafr Qasim while a curfew was being imposed.

After sending "ultimatums" to both Egypt and Israel, Britain and France embark upon a bombing campaign against Egypt, carried out at first by bombers and later supplemented by warships in the...