WASHINGTON- The Pentagon on Wednesday said it had notified the US Congress of a planned sale of Patriot missiles to Kuwait, which is looking to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran....

JERUSALEM, Patrick Moser- Israel on Tuesday threatened to pull out of a UN probe into its deadly flotilla raid to keep the panel from grilling its troops, as the defence minister told another inquiry...

BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's "evidence" implicating Israel in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri has failed to sway his political rivals and left analysts...

JERUSALEM- Israeli bulldozers backed by police destroyed dozens of gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to an AFP photographer. The Islamic Movement accused...

NAPA, Paula Bustamante- Julia Roberts bit off more than she could chew when filming "Eat Pray Love," her new movie about a woman who indulges her taste buds during a year-long journey of...

GUANTANAMO BAY- A military judge on Monday denied a request to suppress Canadian detainee Omar Khadr's alleged confessions which his lawyer said were made under duress at Bagram air base and at...

TRIPOLI- A charity group run by the Libyan leader's son Seif al-Islam Kadhafi said on Monday it signed a 50-million-dollar deal with a UN agency to rebuild 1,250 refugee homes in the Gaza Strip....

WASHINGTON- The commander of American troops in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, said Sunday that Iraqi forces were adequately prepared to take over full security operations when the US combat mission ends...

MANAMA- Bahrain's King Hamad on Sunday called parliamentary and municipal elections for October 23, the state news agency BNA reported. The king, who chaired a cabinet meeting attended by Prime...