TEHRAN, Jay Deshmukh- Iran declared itself a nuclear nation on Thursday as it marked the Islamic revolution's 31st anniversary and launched what Washington called an "unprecedented" crackdown on...

BAGHDAD- Iraqi judges on Thursday ruled that 28 candidates banned from the March 7 general election for alleged links to the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein could stand after all. The...

JERUSALEM - A Palestinian policeman stabbed and killed an Israeli soldier in the north of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the army said, the first Israeli fatality this year in the Middle East...

WASHINGTON- Federal agents handcuffed, detained and "abusively" interrogated a US student at Philadelphia International Airport because he was carrying Arabic flashcards, a lawsuit claimed...

JERUSALEM- Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative. Lieberman...

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this weekend amid efforts to boost ties with Muslim nations, revive Arab-Israeli peace talks and tackle security...

LONDON, Michael Thurston- Britain vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan Monday after the death toll reached the number killed in the 1982 Falklands war -- amid warnings of a new surge in casualties as a...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie - Tony Blair's former communications chief gave an emotional defence of the ex-prime minister Sunday, saying he had been subject to "vilification" over Britain's war with Iraq...

JERUSALEM - Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Sunday denied apologising to a senior Saudi diplomat before a rare public handshake between officials of the two states. Prince Turki...