Middle East News

At least 17 people have been killed and many more wounded during anti-government protests in the western province of Kurdistan, a human rights group said.

GAZA CITY: Palestinian forces went on full alert yesterday as they deployed in strength in the Gaza Strip four days before Israel's historic pullout, but Islamic militant group Hamas vowed to continue its armed ...

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the ...1.3

Witnesses say several Israeli soldiers were hurt in a friendly fire incident in the Gaza Strip early Sunday.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is predicting that a draft constitution will be ready by Monday's deadline, despite the fact that some key issues remain unresolved.2.7

On Saturday at the State Capitol Mall there was little sign of the activity today's groundbreaking ceremony at the new Minnesota World War II Veterans Memorial will bring.

WAR has been very much on Tom Joyce's mind lately. For this artist-blacksmith, the relentless images of sniper fire and exploding bombs in Iraq testify to metal's enduring yet endlessly mutable role in human ...1.3

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With all the commotion generated last week by Benjamin Netanyahu's challenge to Ariel Sharon's leadership of the Likud, the shameful performance of the Labor Party, a political movement with pretensions of ...2

The struggle against incitement is the refuge of cowards, who are afraid to attack the inciters for their genuine acts of injustice.2.7

IT ALL sounded so simple. Winding up his pre-summer holiday press conference 10 days ago, Tony Blair dealt with Iraq in a single sentence.2.7

Britain's most powerful Islamic organisation was accused last night of failing mainstream Muslim Britain after it complained of a 'pro-Israel agenda' at the BBC in a Panorama programme on the faith to be aired ...2.7

ELCA Assembly Adopts Campaign For 'Justice In The Holy Land' CWA-38-05-MRC ORLANDO, Fla.

WITHIN days of being installed as Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative son of a blacksmith, has won the first round in the biggest confrontation with the West since the seizure of the US ...2.7

An Iraqi pilot and four U.S. airmen were together aboard an Iraqi Air Force plane when it crashed in May.1.3

ISLAMABAD, August 14 : The Islamabad Tennis Association Executive Committee met here at Islamabad Club and has finalized the arrangements for holding of 4th Freedom Cup Junior Tennis Championships from 21-26 ...2.7

Doha: Indians taking up jobs in Qatar or looking for change of employment should contact the Indian embassy in Doha to verify credentials of their employers and avoid traps of employment cheating.2.9

ISTANBUL , Backed by a massive security presence, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first visit to the largest predominantly Kurdish city in Turkey and vowed to work to tackle the region's problems.2.7

A major chemical production facility, suspected to have been built by insurgents, was uncovered by US forces during a raid this week in northern Iraq The raids took place early Tuesday near the northern city of ...2.9

I have long taken for granted the fact that, while religious extremists in America were savagely repugnant human beings their more extreme views were largely ignored by the American masses.

The US government is trying to stop fresh images of prisoner abuse in Iraq being made public, claiming they will aid the insurgency, court papers show.2.9

More and better armor on trucks and other U.S. military supply vehicles in Iraq has reduced casualties in supply convoys, even as roadside bomb attacks on the convoys have doubled, the general in charge of the ...

Family and friends recalled a Marine from Lexington killed in Iraq as a hero. About 650 people attended the funeral Saturday of Lance Cpl.

Look, look, my wife, Uzay, shouted, pointing to an eagle as we slowly drifted in a hot-air balloon above the mushroomed-shaped rock formations of Cappadocia, an area so eerie and other worldly that it was the ...

Christopher B. Stoltz / S&S; Elyse, 7, Jordan, 4, and their mother, Amy MacIsaac, look over the book "So Many Bunnies" that NCIS Federal Agent Sandy MacIsaac read to his children while being deployed to Baghdad.1.3

A seven-month flight to Mars began yesterday, August 12, for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... Initial contact came through an antenna at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan.

Tehran, 9 August 2005 + The unique historical town of Masuleh which attracts many domestic and foreign tourists year round is facing different problems posing threats to its natural, historical, and social ...2.9

Readers of non-fiction books have new rules to learn and new revelations to ponder.2.7

Lebanese singer Amal Hijazi is mourning the loss of her aunt. The singer traveled to the south of Lebanon to attend the funeral ceremony and to be close to her family.1.3

Yazd, Aug 13, IRNA-An earthquake measuring 4 degrees on the Richter scale shook Kharaneq of Ardakan in the central province of Yazd Saturday morning.2.7

I've been covering the war in Iraq for nearly two and a half years, going along with U.S. soldiers and Marines as they hunt for insurgents, knock down doors, get caught in firefights, and dodge roadside bombs.

A funeral service and burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia are planned for Wednesday to honor a Milford member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard killed in Iraq last week.

U.S. forces raided an insurgent facility that may have been producing an unspecified type of chemicals, the U.S. military said Saturday.

An Israeli medical doctor has developed a revolutionary bandage that can replace both ordinary bandages and Tourniquet and can even be used to treat burns.

A blast Friday near a mosque west of Baghdad killed four people, including three children, and wounded at least 19 other people, police and hospital officials said.