Middle East News

Doctors say a Palestinian worker at a Gaza fuel terminal has been wounded by an errant rocket fired by Palestinian militants.

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Iraqi villagers and soldiers unearthed at least 13 bodies from a shallow, dusty grave in farmland south of Baghdad, and the U.S. military said Wednesday it found another 10 bodies in a sewer shaft east of the ...

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MOSCOWSaudi Arabia has given its consent for Russia to become a member of the World Trade Organization by signing a bilateral accession deal in Riyadh, Russia's economy ministry said Tuesday.

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The U.S. military captured two al-Qaida in Iraq bombing suspects and a Shiite militia leader in separate raids Tuesday north and south of Baghdad, the military said.

One of the men, arrested along with four aides, is believed to oversee security for al-Qaida's Iraq branch in Mosul _ one of the terror network's last urban strongholds where U.S. and Iraqi forces have waged fierce battles against militants in recent months.

The man is also suspected of masterminding bombings targeting Iraqi police in the area, according to a U.S. military statement.

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Iraq should boost crude oil export capacity to 6 million barrels a day, nearly three times the amount the country currently sends to international markets, a top Kurdish political leader urged Tuesday.

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Iraq's oil production and exports have risen to their highest levels since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Oil Ministry said Monday.

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The U.S. has reversed its decision to take Fulbright scholarships away from seven Gaza-based students, saying it is working with Israel to let them leave the Palestinian territory to study at American ...

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A New Jersey Muslim leader facing deportation asked that his children be removed from the courtroom Monday before he broke into tears while describing graphic torture he said he was subjected to in Israeli detention.

The issue of torture is at the heart of the deportation proceedings against Mohammad Qatanani, a Palestinian who has been the mosque leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson since 1996.

The United States government has rejected his bid for permanent U.S. residency, saying Qatanani failed to disclose a 1993 arrest and conviction in Israel for being a member of Hamas on his green card application.

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Iran's president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic's arch-foes. ...

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BAGHDAD : U.S. troops killed two suspects, captured 31 others and destroyed bomb-making materials over the past two days in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in central and northern swaths of the country, the ...

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