SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar - The leader of the Shiite rebels in north Yemen said on Saturday that he will accept the government's conditions to end the war if attacks against them cease. "I announce...

WASHINGTON - The US administration is speeding up deployment of defenses against potential Iranian missile attacks in the Gulf to heed off any possible retaliation, The New York Times reported...

JERUSALEM, Ron Bousso - Israel handed the United Nations on Friday a report on its military investigations into the Gaza war, rejecting accusations of war crimes and refusing to say whether it will...

WARSAW- Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi said Thursday he currently saw no hope for the creation of a Palestinian state, as he paid an official Thursday visit to the Polish capital Warsaw....

LONDON- Britain said Thursday it was "appalled" by the reported hanging of two men in Iran convicted of being Mohareb (enemies of God), the first executions of dissidents since post-election...

RABAT - Morocco has accused Algeria and the Polisario Front of blocking negotiations on the future of the Western Sahara, in a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, released...

LONDON, Bronwen Roberts - Afghanistan needs five years to take charge of it own security, President Hamid Karzai said in London Wednesday as countries gathered for key talks on tackling a Taliban...

LONDON, Katherine Haddon - World powers pledged to stand side-by-side with Yemen to tackle extremism after talks in London Wednesday on stopping Al-Qaeda from creating a haven in the impoverished...

JERUSALEM- An Israeli Druze lawmaker said Tuesday he has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity to face charges of "contact with enemy agents" after a 2007 visit to Syria. Said Naffaa told...