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TEHRAN, Iran — Conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were leading in the race for parliament according to early election results Saturday, an indication the Iranian president may face a more hostile house in the remaining 18...
JERUSALEM— Israel's foreign minister says the country is ready to help treat Syrians injured in the uprising against President Bashar Assad.
A Friday statement from Avigdor Lieberman's office quotes him as saying that Israel is willing...
TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the...
Turkey on Thursday introduced a symbol for its national currency, the Turkish lira, in a move that reflects the country's ambitious aspirations to become a global player.
The symbol, revealed in a ceremony by Turkey's Central Bank chief...
JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy foreign minister says North Korea's agreement to freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for food aid is not a blueprint for Iran.
"The two cases are entirely dissimilar," Danny Ayalon...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is accusing Sudan's leader of trying to scuttle a historic peace deal that created the world's newest country last year.
Clinton told a House panel on Wednesday that Sudanese President...
Egyptian officials say a travel ban on seven Americans employed by pro-democracy US groups has been lifted.
The decision Wednesday appeared to signal the end of the worst crisis in relations between Egypt and the US in 30 years.
The officials spoke...
Syria’s authoritarian regime held a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a gesture by embattled President Bashar Assad to placate those seeking his ouster. But the opposition deemed it an empty gesture and the West immediately dismissed...
Locked inside U.N. headquarters is a huge but largely unknown archive documenting 10,000 cases against accused World War II criminals, from Belgian charges against Adolf Hitler to the trial of a Japanese commander for inciting rape.
Leading British...
BAGHDAD — A rapid series of attacks spread over a wide swath of Iraqi territory killed at least 50 people on Thursday, targeting mostly security forces in what appeared to be a vicious strike by Al-Qaeda militants bent on destabilizing the...
