Middle East
Jerusalem Palestinians strike in support of prisoners
Shops were shuttered in East Jerusalem on Thursday in solidarity with scores of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest their ongoing ...Iraq militants push towards Baghdad after seizing 2 cities
Militant Islamists seized more territory in northern Iraq on Wednesday, moving south toward Baghdad as government forces scrambled to regroup after losing ...Bashar al-Assad says West changing position on Syria war
Western countries that back the revolt in Syria have started to shift position on the conflict because of the danger posed to ...Earth and Moon may be 60 million years older than previously thought
Work presented at the European Association of Geochemistry’s Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California shows that the timing of the giant impact ...Militants seize Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit
Militant Islamists seized more territory in northern Iraq on Wednesday, moving south toward Baghdad as government forces scrambled to regroup after losing ...Half a million flee Iraqi city of Mosul
Half a million people were estimated Wednesday to have fled Iraq\'s second city of Mosul, as Islamist militants tightened their grip after ...Iraqi PM calls for emergency as militants seize Mosul
Iraq\'s prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency over a militant attack in Mosul.FARC declares truce for Colombia election
Colombia\'s FARC rebels declared a ceasefire on Saturday for a three-week period covering a tight presidential election race on June 15, campaigning ...Syria vote proves no solution without Assad, says Hezbollah
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\'s re-election proves that any solution to the country\'s conflict "begins and ends" with the embattled leader, Lebanon\'s Hezbollah ...Egyptian court sentences 10 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death
A court in Egypt has sentenced 10 Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi\'s Muslim Brotherhood to death for inciting violence and ...