Middle East
Israel finds bodies of three missing teenagers in West Bank
The bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were found in the occupied West Bank, and Israel vowed to punish Hamas, the Palestinian ...Blackwater threatened to kill US official in Iraq: report
The top manager in Iraq of the notorious private security firm Blackwater threatened to kill a US State Department investigator for probing ...Iraq launches offensive to recapture Tikrit
The Iraqi government launched its biggest push yet to wrest back ground lost to Sunni militants, as soldiers backed by tanks and ...Two dead as bombs hit Cairo telecommunications centre
Two bombings on Saturday in a Cairo suburb killed a teenager and her mother, officials said, the latest in a wave of ...Obama proposes $500 million to aid Syrian rebels
US President Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to approve $500 million to train and equip vetted Syrian rebels battling the forces ...Jordan acquits radical cleric Abu Qatada of terror conspiracy charges
A Jordanian court on Thursday acquitted al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who was extradited from Britain last year, of charges of plotting ...Iraq prime minister rejects unity government
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has rejected calls from the United States and other countries to form an emergency government.US military advisers begin work in Iraq
The first teams of up to 300 US military advisers have begun their mission in Baghdad to assist the Iraqi army in ...Iran arrests 3 youths for singing and dancing in World Cup video
Iranian police have arrested three people who appeared in an online video of young men and women singing and dancing in support ...Australia summons Egyptian ambassador over Jazeera verdicts
Australia summoned a senior Egyptian diplomat on Tuesday to protest against the sentencing of an Australian reporter, one of three Al Jazeera ...