MANAMA- Rival Sunni Islamist groups in Bahrain lost almost half their seats in a parliamentary election run-off, which also saw a woman making history by winning a municipal seat.
The National...
DUBAI- Yemeni forces Saturday arrested a woman suspected of sending mail bombs on two US-bound flights in an alleged Al-Qaeda plot that Britain said was aimed at blowing up at least one of the...
RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi King Abdullah invited Iraq's political leaders on Saturday to meet in Riyadh to try to resolve a deadlock over forming a new government, drawing a generally negative...
MADRID- Saudi Arabia's assistant defence minister will visit Spain next week, officials said Friday, and he is reportedly considering the purchase of Leopard 2E tanks for up to three billion euros....
BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday urged all Lebanese to boycott a UN-backed probe into ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder, warning that cooperation amounted to an...
JERUSALEM- Israel traded 52 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners to the Hezbollah militia in exchange for the gun of an Israeli airman who went missing in southern Lebanon in 1986, a newspaper said on...
RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit Thursday said there had been no "breakthrough" in efforts to revive Middle East peace talks on a rare visit to the West Bank....
UMM AL-FAHM, Majeda El Batsh- Israeli police and stone-throwing Arabs clashed in northern Israel on Wednesday as a group of extreme right-wing Israelis tried to march through the Arab Israeli town of...
TIKRIT- The governor of Saddam Hussein's native province has been suspended for membership of the executed Iraqi dictator's now outlawed Baath party, a vetting body said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA- UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged Iraq and the United States to investigate allegations of torture and unlawful killings in the Iraq conflict revealed in documents leaked...
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