WASHINGTON- Jordan's Queen Noor welcomed on Thursday moves to reduce the world's stockpiles of nuclear arms, but said further steps are still needed. "We are at a nuclear tipping point," she said...

BAGHDAD, Mehdi Lebouachera - The families of two Reuters news agency employees killed in a 2007 US helicopter attack in Baghdad on Thursday demanded justice, telling AFP the Americans responsible...

WASHINGTON- Vice President Joe Biden offered "all necessary" US support to Iraq on Wednesday after a string of bomb attacks a top Baghdad official likened to "open war" with remnants of Al-Qaeda....

WASHINGTON- The Taliban Wednesday released a new video said to be of US soldier Bowe Robert Bergdahl begging the US government to intervene and win his release after nine months in captivity in...

LONDON, Katherine Haddon- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown fired the starting gun Tuesday on a month-long election race, setting May 6 as the date for voting in what could be the closest poll for...

CAIRO- Egyptian police on Tuesday beat up demonstrators demanding an end to the emergency law that dates back to 1981 and arrested dozens of protesters, organisers told AFP, as Amnesty International...

JERUSALEM- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reiterated on Tuesday that there would be no halt to construction in east Jerusalem despite international demands for a complete settlement...

WASHINGTON- The United States said Tuesday that an upsurge of deadly bomb attacks in Baghdad would not compromise its goal of withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. Six...

WASHINGTON- Republican Senator John McCain, whose "maverick" breaks with his party won him media acclaim and powered his 2008 White House run, now rejects the moniker, according to Newsweek...