A senior Iranian cleric urged Washington and Tehran on Friday to “join hands” to end sanctions, local media reported, underlining the support of Iran’s influential religious establishment for President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic offensive. Rouhani…
Sudan closed the bureau of al-Arabiya television station after complaining about its coverage of anti-government protests, the Saudi-owned station said. Authorities…
Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia agreed on Thursday on a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that…
Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group said on Tuesday there were “countless dead bodies” in a Kenyan shopping mall as security forces…
The deadly attack on a high-end Nairobi shopping mall on Saturday put the safety of malls around the world into the…
Several people were shot in a park on Chicago’s South Side Thursday night, police said. Police could not immediately confirm a…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that President Hassan Rouhani had exchanged letters with U.S. President Barack Obama, confirming direct communication between…
The notion of Syria giving up its chemical weapons, or at least putting them under foreign control, has long been on…
With the United States threatening to attack Syria, U.S. and allied intelligence services are still trying to work out who ordered…
It would hardly be a surprise to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or his military if American missiles start hitting Syria soon.…
The international rights group Amnesty International has joined activists in the United Arab Emirates urging authorities to investigate allegations of abuse…
Syria hailed a “historic American retreat” on Sunday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a…
US Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people in a chemical weapons attack in…
The United States and its allies geared up for a probable military strike against Syria that could come within days and…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry warned that a U.S. attack on Syria would drag the whole region into conflict. “We want to strongly…
President Barack Obama and his top military and national security advisers hashed out options on Saturday for responding to the alleged…
The United Nations demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access on Thursday to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas…
A climate of fear that kept Egyptians compliant during the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak is creeping back into daily life,…
The United States on Tuesday adopted a harder line toward Egypt’s military-backed government, stressing that its bloody crackdown on protesters could…
A Pakistani court indicted Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, escalating legal challenges to the…
CAIRO — More violence is expected in Egypt after chaos swept through the country last week, leaving nearly 900 dead in…
(Reuters) – Iran has installed 18,000 uranium-enrichment centrifuges, the country’s outgoing nuclear chief was quoted as saying by Iranian media on…
(Reuters) – By canceling a military exercise with Egypt but not cutting off U.S. aid, President Barack Obama sought on Thursday…
By David Kirkpatrick CAIRO — Gathering Thursday morning around a mosque used as a morgue for hundreds killed the day before,…
(Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it would bring down the “military coup” but stressed it remained committed to…
Reuters: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah’s disdain for Iran leaps from U.S. embassy cables. “May God prevent us from falling victim to…
(Reuters) – Bahrain has deported a U.S. nursery school teacher it says wrote articles on social media sites linked to radical…
(Reuters) – Iran has constructed a rocket-launching site that could be used for testing ballistic missiles, a report from a military…