TEHRAN: A man blew himself up at a meeting of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran on Sunday, killing seven commanders and at least 35 others in an attack Tehran said was plotted on
PESHAWAR: Pakistan pounded Taleban bases from the air and bore down on their leader’s hometown Sunday, intensifying a major offensive against the militants and claiming to have killed 60 of them. More... Full Story
RAMALLAH: A new poll on Sunday has found that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ popularity has declined after the Palestinian Authority (PA) backed deferring a vote on the Goldstone report
JERUSALEM: A large Israeli cafe chain has decided to stop selling Turkish coffee and plans are afoot to boycott Turkish resorts in the wake of increased tensions between the two allies, officials said
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq: As America’s military role in Iraq winds down, the US is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives.
KHARTOUM: Two foreign aid workers seized at gunpoint more than three months ago in Sudan’s Darfur region were released Saturday by their captors, a Sudanese government official said. The
KUWAIT CITY: The expatriate population of Kuwait dropped 0.6 percent in the first half of 2009, bringing to an end 19 years of sharp increases in the oil-rich emirate, official figures revealed on
AMMAN: A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said. “The
MUMBAI: After a seven-hour drama, a chartered US military aircraft that was detained at Mumbai airport Sunday morning by Indian authorities after it failed to correctly identify itself, was given the
THANE: Six firemen from the Thane fire brigade died of suffocation after becoming stuck in an elevator that became full of smoke from a burning apartment on Sunday morning. According to police
ZAMBOANGA CITY: United States officials have met with top Moro Islamic Liberation Front leaders at a tightly guarded rebel base in the southern Philippines. Leslie Bassett, US deputy ambassador
