RAFAH - Egyptian authorities are installing underground metal sheets along the border area of Rafah in a bid to stem smuggling into Hamas-ruled Gaza, residents and officials said on Friday. Metal...

WASHINGTON - The United States said Friday it expects the Baghdad government to act legally and humanely when it relocates Iranian dissidents from a border camp to southern Iraq before deporting...

VATICAN CITY - Talks stalled Thursday between Israel and the Vatican over the status of Roman Catholic Church property in the Holy Land and other longstanding disputes, the two sides said in a joint...

OSLO, Stephen Collinson and Rita Devlin Marier- A humble President Barack Obama on Thursday joined a list of revered Nobel peace laureates, but in a steely speech he warned he would not hesitate to...

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conceded Thursday that security concerns limited movement for American civilians working in Afghanistan, but said US troops still escorted them to...

WASHINGTON - The United States handed over a Kuwaiti citizen held at Guantanamo Bay to his home country on Wednesday, three months after a federal judge ordered him released, the Justice Department...

WASHINGTON - A US lawmaker, describing himself as unhappy about the trend of replacing "Merry Christmas" with "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays," has introduced a symbolic resolution to...

BAGHDAD, Prashant Rao and Ammar Karim- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sacked Baghdad's security chief over a string of coordinated car and truck bombings claimed by an Al-Qaeda group that...

KUWAIT CITY, Omar Hasan- Kuwait entered a new period of political turmoil Tuesday as 10 opposition MPs filed a motion of "non-cooperation" against the premier over corruption charges after a marathon...