Iran agreed Friday to enter into talks with the European Union about its nuclear program before the end of the month, Iranian state-run media said.
An agreement on relations between the United States and Iraq is within reach and Americans have been flexible in negotiations, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.
Iran's foreign minister has said his government might consider the American idea of opening a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Tehran -- comments coming amid possible progress in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
Jordan's King Abdullah II will travel to Iraq soon, a top Iraqi official said Wednesday, becoming the first monarch of an Arab country to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than five years ago.
Hezbollah has agreed to a swap with Israel involving prisoners both alive and dead, leader Hassan Nasrallah says.
Israeli authorities are investigating why a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem rammed his bulldozer into several cars and buses Wednesday, killing three people before Israeli police shot him dead.
Egyptian forces fired water cannons Wednesday at crowds of stone-throwing Palestinians who were trying to cross into Egypt from southern Gaza, Hamas security sources said.
When you grow up in a place of war, your realities are inevitably driven by the violence surrounding you.
Iran agreed Friday to enter into talks with the European Union about its nuclear program before the end of the month, Iranian state-run media said.
An agreement on relations between the United States and Iraq is within reach and Americans have been flexible in negotiations, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.
Iran's foreign minister has said his government might consider the American idea of opening a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Tehran -- comments coming amid possible progress in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
Jordan's King Abdullah II will travel to Iraq soon, a top Iraqi official said Wednesday, becoming the first monarch of an Arab country to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than five years ago.
Hezbollah has agreed to a swap with Israel involving prisoners both alive and dead, leader Hassan Nasrallah says.
Israeli authorities are investigating why a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem rammed his bulldozer into several cars and buses Wednesday, killing three people before Israeli police shot him dead.
Egyptian forces fired water cannons Wednesday at crowds of stone-throwing Palestinians who were trying to cross into Egypt from southern Gaza, Hamas security sources said.
When you grow up in a place of war, your realities are inevitably driven by the violence surrounding you.
Security contractors working in Iraq will no longer receive immunity from prosecution in that nation under a deal being brokered by Iraqi and U.S. officials, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said.
Four Iraqi judges were targeted in separate bombing attacks Monday in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.
The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.
A building collapsed Monday in the Iranian capital, killing 19 laborers living inside it, the Iranian state television and radio said.
Iran has sentenced to death a man found guilty of spying for Israel, state media reported Monday.
Israel agreed to release a notorious killer Sunday in order to bring closure to the families of three missing military men, a government spokesman said.
A truck bomb killed seven people, including six police officers, in a town north of Baghdad Sunday, police said.
The World Health Organization, one of United Nations' most important agencies, is opening a permanent office in Baghdad, a move that underscores recent security improvements in Iraq's capital.
Israel has closed crossings between Israel and Gaza except for Erez crossing on Gaza's northern border, a military source said Wednesday.
Israel reopened some of its border crossings with Gaza on Sunday, four days after it closed all but one passage because of Palestinian rocket attacks.
A least one person was killed and 28 others were wounded early Saturday when an explosion ripped through an apartment building in the northern city of Tripoli, security officials said.
An increase in attacks by Taliban fighters operating from Pakistan is a "real concern" in the nearly 7-year-old war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
Gunmen have killed a senior city appeals judge in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
An American graduate student who went to Iraq to find ways to help ordinary citizens persevere in a transitioning government was one of two American civilians killed in a Sadr City bombing.
Bombers on Thursday killed at least 20 people west of Baghdad and at least 18 people in northern Iraq.
Ambitious plans to build a revolutionary 420-meter shape-shifting skyscraper in Dubai have been unveiled by architects.
Iran's powerful speaker of parliament warned other countries Wednesday not to provoke Iran and cautioned against moves that would "cost them heavily."
Saudi authorities announced a massive anti-terrorism sweep Wednesday that netted more than 500 members of a purported al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell said to be planning attacks on Saudi targets, including major oil installations.
Police said a U.S. airstrike killed a family of six in northern Iraq, but the U.S. military described it as an attack targeting insurgents that killed one "armed terrorist."
Israeli lawmakers have reached a last-minute deal that will allow embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stay in power for a few more months. In exchange, Olmert's party agreed to hold primary elections by September 25.
Four Americans -- two soldiers and two civilians from the Defense and State departments -- were killed Tuesday in a blast that rocked a municipal building in Baghdad's Sadr City, the U.S. Embassy said.
Hamas leaders in Gaza are still committed to a cease-fire agreement with Israel despite numerous rocket and mortar strikes Tuesday, a Hamas spokesman said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will ask his Cabinet on Sunday to approve a deal with Hezbollah that would involve exchanging prisoners for two captured Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli soldier committed suicide at Tel Aviv's airport during a departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, prompting security guards to whisk Sarkozy and his wife into their plane.
Iraq's Anbar province -- once dominated by Sunni insurgents but now a bastion of tribal opposition against the militants -- will soon be run by the Iraqi military.
Female suicide bombers, who often slip through security checkpoints untouched because of cultural norms, are taking a more deadly toll than ever across Iraq.
An Iraqi city council member opened fire on U.S. forces outside Baghdad on Monday, killing two soldiers, U.S. officials said.
All major indicators of violence in Iraq have dropped by between 40 and 80 percent since February 2007, when President Bush committed an additional 30,000 troops to the war there, the Pentagon reported Monday.
Israel's High Court on Monday rejected an appeal by the parents of a captured Israeli soldier who hoped to compel the government to explain why a recent cease-fire deal with Hamas did not include the release of their son, a court spokeswoman said.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief warned in comments aired Saturday that any military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast to a "ball of fire" and lead Iran to a more aggressive stance on its controversial nuclear program.
Oil prices rose Monday as investors shrugged off Saudi Arabia's pledge to increase its oil production if needed, focusing instead on disruptions to Nigerian supply and heightened Middle East tensions.
Heavy fighting between pro- and anti-government supporters in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli raged for a second day Monday and officials said four more people had died overnight.
A Syrian newspaper is accusing the U.S. of making false nuclear accusations against Damascus. It's expressing hope that a fact-finding trip by nuclear inspectors to Syria will not turn into a "prolonged affair."
Saudi King Abdullah confirmed Sunday that his country will increase daily oil production from 9 million barrels to 9.7 million in the near future to counter the sharp rise in international oil prices.
A female suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 40 Sunday when she detonated her explosives in a crowded area of central Baquba, police there said.
The parents of an Israeli soldier held captive for nearly two years petitioned Israel's High Court Sunday to compel the government to explain why a cease-fire with Hamas did not include the release of their son.
A military strike on Iran would turn the Middle East "into a ball of fire," said Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
Oil prices are hitting record highs because production has not kept pace with increasing demands, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Saturday.
The supply and demand of oil around the world is "normal," a key adviser to Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Friday, pointing to factors including speculators and currency fluctuations for rocketing oil prices.
The Pentagon's upcoming report to Congress on the Iraq war is expected to highlight a decline in violence in 2008, according to two Pentagon officials with knowledge of the report's contents.
Israel conducted a major aerial military exercise over the eastern Mediterranean Sea this month, a U.S. military official confirmed.
Israeli children toted colorful backpacks to school in this town on the Gaza border Thursday, the first day of a truce that Israel hopes will end the barrage of rockets that have pummeled Sderot in recent months.
Seven Bahai leaders detained by Iranian authorities have contacted their families for the first time since their arrest more than a month ago, the Bahai movement said Thursday.
A prominent local official was detained Thursday in southeastern Iraq during a new government offensive against militants along the Iranian border.
A truce between Israel and Palestinian militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza took effect at 6 a.m. local time Thursday, after both sides spent the previous day trading blows.
The U.S. government designated two Venezuelans, including a diplomat, as supporters of international terrorism Wednesday for what it called their support of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday.
Israel has been making small steps toward reconciling with its neighbors -- including this week's planned truce with Gaza's Hamas leaders -- raising questions about whether those steps could lead to a broader peace deal.
A car bombing that killed dozens Tuesday in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad may have been conducted by a militant trying to incite Shiite violence against Sunnis, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Palestinian militants and the Israeli military traded violent attacks Wednesday, a day before a truce was scheduled to take effect, according to the Israeli military and Hamas.
In one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad in months, at least 51 Iraqis were killed and 75 were wounded Tuesday in a car bombing, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
A truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas leaders will take effect Thursday and last for six months, Hamas officials said Tuesday.
The shaky video shows four men, wearing makeshift hoods and wielding sticks or batons, as they walk up a grassy hill to a middle-aged Palestinian man tending his sheep in the Hebron Hills.
The British Foreign Office has warned its nationals -- traveling to or living in the United Arab Emirates -- about the increased threat of a terrorist attack.
Israel has confirmed that its troops killed three Palestinian militants it says were trying to plant explosives in southern Gaza on Monday.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Sunday sternly rebuked Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's latest threats..
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that Israeli plans to build 1,300 homes in East Jerusalem pose the "greatest obstacle" to Mideast peace.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday said Israel's plans to build 1,300 homes in East Jerusalem were "simply not helpful" to peace efforts in the region.
"If you take pictures, I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" screamed a masked Fatah gunman, pointing his AK-47 assault rifle at my cameraman, Joe Duran.
A female suicide bomber in northern Iraq targeted buoyant soccer fans who had just watched their national team win a big match against China, authorities told CNN.
President Bush said Saturday he is confident the United States can reach a long-term security agreement with Iraq, one that will not establish permanent U.S. bases there.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is establishing a new fighting force to battle U.S.-led troops in Iraq, he said in a letter read in Iraqi mosques Friday.
Iraq is contemplating pulling out of security talks with the United States and developing their own legislation that would dictate the shape of the American military presence in the country, an Iraqi official said Thursday.
With Christmas 2005 approaching, the princes of al Qaeda's western command were gathering. They'd been summoned for something special: to plot a three-month campaign of coordinated suicide, rocket and infantry attacks on American bases, checkpoints and Iraqi army positions.
Six people were killed and more than 60 were injured Thursday when an explosion ripped through a senior Hamas commander's house in northern Gaza, Palestinian security sources said.
Iraq's prime minister sat down with Jordanian leaders on Thursday, the first day of his two-day trip to the neighboring Sunni Arab nation, which buys oil from Iraq and hosts hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees.
The mother's voice lacks emotion as she recalls how her daughter became a suicide bomber.
An Israeli military operation in Gaza killed three people Wednesday, including two civilians, Palestinian medical sources said; a broader Israeli operation is on hold pending the result of truce talks.
The United States believes Iraq should not be used as a "platform" for strikes on other states, according to a U.S. State Department envoy leading talks on an American-Iraqi pact.
Three prominent tribal leaders, including the head of Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribe and two others who had been working for national reconciliation, were killed over the past 24 hours in northern Iraq.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed three Palestinian militants Tuesday following a mortar attack on Israel, according to Israeli army and Hamas sources.
The parents of a captive Israeli soldier received a letter from their son Monday, according to the Carter Center, which arranged delivery of the message.
The biggest hurdle standing in the way of peace in Iraq is the presence of American troops there, Iran's Supreme Leader told Iraq's visiting prime minister on Monday, according to Iranian media reports.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday tried to allay Iranian fears over a planned U.S.-Iraq security pact, saying his government would not allow Iraq to become a launching pad for an attack on its neighbor.
Eight former officials from executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government will be transferred from U.S. military prisons to Iraqi custody in the coming days, Iraq's Deputy Justice Minister told CNN on Sunday.
Iran's United Nations delegation accused the Security Council of "emboldening" an Israeli official into threatening to attack Iran over its nuclear weapons development program, according to Iran's state-run media.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran on Saturday for a visit with top Iranian officials, his office said, while car bombings renewed violence at home.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a brief visit to Beirut on Saturday, showing his country's support for newly-elected Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and urging leaders of political factions to pursue "national reconciliation."
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have agreed to start drafting elements of a proposed peace accord, the chief Palestinian negotiator said Friday.
An Israeli Cabinet member said the Jewish state "will attack" Iran if it doesn't halt its efforts to develop nuclear weaponry, according to a newspaper report Friday.
Coalition forces in Iraq said Friday they detained an "Iranian-trained" militant leader as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gets ready to visit Iran on Saturday to discuss security concerns and other issues.
An Israeli missile aimed at a group of militants struck a house in Gaza on Thursday and killed a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, Palestinian officials said, hours after an Israeli was killed by a Hamas mortar barrage fired from the area.
The United Arab Emirates is expected to soon name an ambassador to Iraq and could open an embassy in the war-ravaged nation, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
The chief of Turkey's army said Thursday that Iran and Turkey are coordinating efforts against Kurdish militants, including the sharing of intelligence.
The United States accepted 1,141 Iraqi refugees in May, the most the U.S. has taken in one month, and officials say they're on track to meet this fiscal year's goal of 12,000.
Mullah Nadhim preached open war on U.S. troops for years.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called for talks with rival Hamas aimed at forming a new government after a yearlong political and territorial split.
An explosion in Baghdad on Wednesday killed 18 people and wounded at least 75 others.
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