RIYADH - French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Israel and the Palestinians to promptly revive the Middle East peace process or else risk an extremist backlash, in an interview published here...

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan - Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would...

WASHINGTON- The families of three US hikers detained in Iran voiced concern Sunday about their loved ones' mental state after weeks of semi-isolation in a Tehran prison, and are asking people to send...

TEL AVIV - Former US president Bill Clinton on Saturday said he believes there would have been a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East a decade ago if Israeli prime minister Yitzhak...

RABAT - Moroccan authorities expelled to the Canary Islands Saturday a Western Sahara rights activist who was recently awarded a major peace prize in New York, a security source said. Aminatou...

LONDON - A growing majority of Britons want British troops out of Afghanistan within 12 months, a poll released Saturday showed, as a NATO commander spoke of his son's horrific injuries in the war....

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran - Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that was criticised -- it was...

WASHINGTON- A survey of US soldiers in Afghanistan shows declining morale among army units and that troops facing three or more combat tours have higher rates of mental health and marital problems,...

WASHINGTON, Andrew Gully - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani who attended university in the United States, is the self-proclaimed architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks and a host...