The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy...

With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) has launched a plan to boost hotel occupancy rate in the emirate by 10 percent in 2010, WAM news agency...

Israeli military prosecutors indicted two Israeli soldiers Thursday for allegedly ordering a Palestinian child to open bags suspected of containing explosives, during Israel's Gaza Strip offensive last year, a military statement...

Iran has started production of new medium-range surface-to-air missiles with the aim of upgrading its air defence...

Five civilians, including four children, were killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in north-eastern Afghanistan, officials...

Footballers' Wives star Laila Rouass is set to make a film on the life of terrorist Leila Khaled, often dubbed the "poster girl of Palestinian...

In a new study, scientists in Kuwait have predicted that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 - almost a decade earlier than some other...

Jordan was spotted shopping for saucy wigs and outfits with her cross dressing cage fighter husband Alex...

Centrist Groups Take Early Lead in Iraq Vote The commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq says it might be necessary to keep some American combat forces in the country beyond the August 31 deadline,...

US Official, Syrian President Meet in Bid for Improved Ties A report by international watchdog group Human Rights Watch is urging the West to engage Syria on its treatment of dissidents.Human Rights...

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, second from left, at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi yesterday during a diplomatic visit to garner support for tougher sanctions against...

More than three years after the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a complete halt to fighting between Israel and the Lebanese group Hizbollah, the situation in the region remains...

Michael Brothman, 25, stands on the porch his home Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Vineland, N.J., as he talks about his high school friend, Sharif Mobley. The FBI confirmed Thursday that the agency is...

The Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday that it has postponed the inauguration of a square named after Dalal Mughrabi, the Fatah woman who led the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 37...

DUBAI: The Palestinians have refused to hold indirect talks with the Israelis, unless Tel Aviv annuls its decision to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem. “We want to hear from [United...

Mobley's capture is the latest in a string of Yemeni counterterrorism efforts aimed at disrupting al-Qaida. The al-Qaida branch there has been linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing of...

"Green Zone" is Paul Greengrass' action-filled but superficial Iraq war drama. It focuses on an increasingly cynical warrant officer (Matt Damon), who discovers that his superiors can't handle the...

First Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak cancelled talks in Cairo and flew to hospital for gallbladder surgery. Then came an Israeli gift of broken glass and an eerie power outage in the "Hall of...

BUENA, N.J. - Yemen counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, where he was being held after a sweep...

Former hostage Peter Moore has spoken of his ordeal at the hands of insurgents in Iraq. The computer expert, who was abducted with his four bodyguards in Iraq in May 2007, was released in December...

So far results appear to be on sectarian lines, with the main Shiite bloc doing well in the south, and the Iraqiya group showing well in Sunni areas. But allegations of fraud could mar the...

Iraqi journalists and representatives of Iraqi political blocs and entities look at a screen showing the partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq in Baghdad on Thursday (AP photo...

- US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that leading Gulf states appeared ready to use their clout to lobby China to support sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme. ...

- Yemeni forces launched an attack on Thursday to recapture a government building occupied by separatists in the south of the country, setting off a gunfight that killed two people, a local official...

Photo provided by the Department of Defense shows US Defense Secretary Robert Gates visiting Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 11 Mar...

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad, Iraq, 11 Mar 2010, as data is calculated before an election result can be...

Arab League, Israel Indirect Talks Off The U.S. says it has no information indicating Palestinians have decided to withdraw from planned indirect talks with Israel.State Department spokesman P.J....

LONDON // The embattled EU foreign policy chief will head to the Middle East next week determined to silence her critics who claim that she is not up to the job.Baroness shton, a relative unknown...

With his urgent Jason Bourne movies and his documentary-style reconstruction of the 9/11 attack in "United 93," director Paul Greengrass has earned a reputation as one of our sturdiest...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses the men and women of the 389th Air Expeditionary Wing at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/DOD, Cherie...

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, speaks at Tel Aviv Univeristy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Biden attempted to soothe tensions with Israel on Thursday in an effusive speech...

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast in the national election in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary...

This frame grab made from video provided by NBC.40 television shows Charles Mobley, father of Sharif Mobley, on Thursday March 11, 2010 outside his home in Buena, N.J. The FBI is investigating the...

A special broadcast aired Thursday by Al-Jazeera and picked up by both Channel 10 and Channel 2 showed file footage of IDF prisoners of war in Palestinian captivity in Syria.The footage, recorded in...

With the first Iraq election results coming in, Middle East countries are watching close and gauging what the vote means for their influence on the oil-rich...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday accused China and Iran of worsening human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe....

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary March 10, 2010 NOTICE ----------- CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN On March 15, 1995, by Executive Order 12957, the...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary March 10, 2010 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic...

The US vice-president has sought to salvage peace talks between Israel and Palestinian leaders, despite an ongoing row over new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem. Joe Biden says Israel's decision to...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that leading Gulf states appeared ready to use their clout to lobby China to support sanctions against Iran over its...

JERUSALEM: An Israeli supermarket on Wednesday looked to cash in on the infamous surveillance camera footage showing suspected assassins stalking a Hamas operative in Dubai with a new advertising ...

As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, the State Department is blaming the Iraqi government for arbitrary killings of civilians and other human rights abuses.The department's annual human...

Yemen counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, where he was being held after a sweep of al-Qaeda...