WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his vow to close the Guantanamo Bay jail despite deciding to suspend transfers of prisoners to Yemen following the Christmas Day airliner...
LONDON- Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he was "appalled" at a planned march by Islamists through the town where Britain's Afghanistan war dead are repatriated, branding it "abhorrent and...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks aimed at relaunching peace talks with Israel, amid lingering divisions over Jewish settlement...
ROME - The European Union must develop a strategy of prevention to deal with the terrorist threat in Yemen, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in a television interview Sunday.
"The...
RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday that Israel acts like a "spoiled child" and stalls Middle East peace talks thanks to easy international...
COPENHAGEN, Slim Allagui - Kurt Westergaard has remained defiant in the face of repeated death threats following his controversial drawing of the prophet Mohammed.
The Danish cartoonist sparked...
TEL AVIV - Hundreds of Israeli pacifists, both Arabs and Jews, marched in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip.
The demonstrators --...
WASHINGTON- The White House Saturday said Iran was "standing in its own way" by imposing an ultimatum on world powers to accept its version of a deal to defuse the building nuclear showdown....
WASHINGTON- The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of "insidious terrorist threats" faced by the United States according to a top US counterterrorism official, who vowed...
SANAA- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed for reason from Shiite rebels in the north, separatists in the south and Al-Qaeda militants in an article published on Friday to mark the new...