We will continue to monitor and analyze the contents of the secret documents leaked from the files of the US Defense Department via the "Wikileaks" website long into the future. Wikileaks is a website

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (AP) – Rescuers trying to reach thousands of Pakistani flood victims were hampered by deluged roads and damaged bridges Saturday, though there were signs that waters were receding

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The UN Security Council on Friday demanded an end to escalating violence in Darfur and called on rebel groups to join peace talks to end the seven-year conflict in the western region

BEIRUT (AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi King Abdullah on Friday urged Lebanon's rival factions to avoid violence, on an unprecedented joint trip to Beirut aiming to defuse political

BAGHDAD (AP) - A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers responding to an earlier blast Saturday in an area south of Baghdad, officials said. One bystander was also killed. The first explosion near

TEHRAN (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 hit northeastern Iran, injuring around 170 people, state radio reported on Saturday. The tremor hit the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh, about 700

BEIRUT (AP) - The ruler of Qatar is taking a firsthand look at south Lebanese border towns he helped rebuild after the 2006 Israeli bombardment. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's tour of the overwhelmingly

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, (AP) – Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group said Saturday. The

AMMAN (AFP) – The powerful Islamist opposition has decided to boycott Jordan's November 9 general election, citing lack of government guarantees to ensure a fair poll, its leaders said on Friday. "The

LONDON (AFP) – An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran pleaded to be allowed to hug her children, in a letter attributed to her released by human rights activists in London

BEIRUT, (AP) — Across four decades, Fairouz's songs of freedom, justice and love transfixed Arab audiences, moved millions to tears and gave hope to the Lebanese during the darkest days of their 15-year

BAGHDAD (AP) - A roadside bomb killed four people, including three army soldiers, and wounded 11 people south of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said. The blast took place near the municipal offices

GENEVA, July 30 (Reuters) - Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations

BEIRUT (AP) — The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia were heading to Beirut on Friday to help defuse a simmering crisis over expected indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister

WASHINGTON (AP) — A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, and he did not

ASHKELON, Israel(Reuters) - A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip struck the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing damage but no injuries, officials said. The rare

Until just a few months ago the official commentariat in Tehran was building a lot of pies in the sky with the prospect of a new axis to oppose the global influence of the American “Great Satan.”

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) _ Jordan's police spokesman says two British and three Iraqi women who were taking part in a U.N.-sponsored training course have died in a road accident in Jordan. Lt. Col. Mohammed

One of the most charming stories of real Misyar marriage (a marriage where couples may live separately and without financial obligations), is the story of a handsome young Algerian man, whose country’s

Perhaps the Saudi youth who reported being attacked and beaten by two Bahraini security guards was perhaps luckier than other Saudi tourist victims, for his attack was at least documented in images.

GENEVA (AFP) – The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994. The payment brings the

TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese shipping company maintained Thursday that its oil tanker was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it may have been hit by a freak wave. Mitsui

ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran and the United States sent positive signals on Wednesday about the possibility of fresh talks on the Iranian nuclear program, which Washington suspects aims to develop

London, Asharq al-Awsat - An informed source has revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Iran has sent a strongly-worded message to its allies in the Islamic Supreme Council which is led by Ammar al-Hakim

GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty. A week after banning women from smoking water pipes in public places, the Hamas-run police

London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Nobody can argue that there has been an unprecedented boom in the number of people converting to Islam in Europe and the US, and Islam today is reportedly the fastest growing

CAIRO (AFP) – Arab foreign ministers will hold crucial talks with Palestinian Mahmud Abbas on Thursday to decide whether he will begin direct negotiations with Israel amid pressure from the United States. Abbas

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further strikes

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that Western allies had the ability to strike at Taliban bases in Pakistan, but questioned their willingness to do so. "The war against terrorism

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