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Baghdad--A car bomb exploded Friday at an open-air market crowded with shoppers in a Shiite town northeast of Baghdad, killing 23 people and wounding more than 50, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
The bombing struck the town of Khalis, a...
New Delhi--As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India Express plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a tricky hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain. At least...
Tehran--Iran on Wednesday dismissed as "illegitimate" a draft UN Security Council resolution seeking to impose harsher sanctions against Tehran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh, a top adviser to Iranian President...
Tehran--Iran agreed Monday to ship most of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in a surprise nuclear fuel swap deal that could ease the international standoff over the country's disputed atomic program and deflate a US-led push for tougher sanctions...
Gaza--Thousands of Palestinians have marched in Gaza to mark 62 years of displacement.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation. Palestinians call it the "catastrophe," or "nakba...
Baghdad--Al-Qaida in Iraq's new leader warned Shias on Friday that "dark days soaked with blood" lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was under way.
The warning comes just days after Iraq was wracked by the worst attack this year, a series...
Jerusalem--Palestinians and Israeli police say a Palestinian boy has been found dead from a gunshot wound in the West Bank.
Palestinians say the teenager was throwing stones at Israeli cars and was likely shot by an Israeli settler. Ambulance driver...
Washington--The White House expressed disappointment in Egypt's decision to extend a controversial emergency law for two years and is calling for it to be replaced with a promised counterterrorism measure that would protect Egyptian civil liberties...
Baghdad--The death toll for a devastating day of attacks across Iraq rose to 119 on Tuesday as the worst hit cities of Basra and Hilla south of Baghdad reported new deaths from bombings the previous day, the country's deadliest so far this year.
The...
Baghdad--At least nine people were killed on Monday in what appears to be a coordinated attack across the Iraqi capital targeting police and army personnel, Iraqi officials said.
They said the violence was mostly the work of gunmen in speeding cars...
