WASHINGTON- White House national security chief James Jones Wednesday said that making peace in the Middle East would stop Iran "cynically" using the conflict to deflect attention from its nuclear...

ABU DHABI- The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday likened Iran's control of three disputed Gulf islands to Israel's occupation of Arab territories. "The occupation of any Arab...

WASHINGTON, Christophe Schmidt- President Barack Obama's administration has drawn fire from both Sudan's Arab-led government and US activists with its qualified criticism of the first multi-party...

DAMASCUS- A Syrian security court has jailed four Kurdish opposition activists for five years each for belonging to a banned political party, a rights group said on Monday. Nazami Mohammad, Ahmed...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday poured cold water on the notion of any dramatic new US peace plan, as speculation mounted over Washington's next move...

JEDDAH- UN human rights chief Navi Pillay called Monday for Muslim Gulf states to lift restrictions on women and to improve the position of millions of foreign workers in the region. "Women in the...

KRAKOW - World leaders grounded by a shutdown of Europe's airspace were forced to skip the funeral of Poland's president although some European guests took to the roads Saturday to make it in time....

GAZA CITY, Adel Zaanoun- Hamas and Fatah closed ranks on Saturday to mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day on Saturday, in the first joint initiative by the bitter rivals since the latter was routed from...

BEIRUT- US concern over allegations that Syria has been supplying Scud missiles to Hezbollah serves to encourage Israel to attack Lebanon, the Lebanese Shiite militant group said on Saturday....