LONDON, Alice Ritchie - Former prime minister Tony Blair will give testimony to Britain's Iraq war inquiry next week, officials said Monday, as one of his former aides robustly defended his conduct....
CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba - Egypt sought to minimise the repercussions of the recent killing of six Coptic Christians in the south by qualifying the incident as a "criminal" rather than sectarian affair....
WASHINGTON - Nearly a year into his presidency, Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he at times is wracked by doubt and disappointment when his key agenda items are slowed by multiple hurdles....
JERUSALEM - Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of "collectively punishing" the population of the Gaza Strip with border closures tightened after the Islamist Hamas movement's bloody 2007...
BAGHDAD, Arthur MacMillan- Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman "Chemical Ali" was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi town of Halabja, a brutal attack that...
ANKARA, Gavin Rabinowitz - Israel's defence minister held fence-mending talks in Turkey on Sunday, securing a commitment to military cooperation but failing to cajole Ankara into curbing its...
BEIRUT - Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Tajeddini said his government fully supports the "unity and independence" of Lebanon during a visit to Beirut on Saturday, the Lebanese president's...
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait is not asking its former occupier Iraq to repay a multi-billion-dollar debt but only for assurances on security and good neighbourly ties, the Kuwaiti foreign minister has said....
BEIRUT - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Egypt on Friday to stop building an underground wall along its border with Gaza, which the Islamist group has said would further choke the impoverished...
WASHINGTON - The shooting rampage at Fort Hood was "an act of terrorism," a senior US official said on Friday, employing a phrase that the Obama administration has previously avoided to describe the...
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