Middle East
UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned Tuesday after trying for nearly two years to overcome “almost impossible odds” to end ...Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 28 people
A wave of car bombings in Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that ...Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to six years in prison for bribery conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes in the Holyland ...Militants execute 20 soldiers in north Iraq
Authorities in Iraq have found the bodies of 20 soldiers shot dead after being kidnapped from a northern military base, and a ...Deadly suicide bombing strikes southern Yemen
A suicide car bomber killed 12 Yemeni army officers and wounded many others today after targeting a military police building in the ...Two U.S. embassy officers involved in Yemen firefight, left Sanaa
Two U.S. embassy officers shot and killed two armed people after an attempted abduction in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in April, ...Duas pessoas morrem após balão pegar fogo nos EUA
Duas pessoas morreram e outras estão desaparecidas depois que um balão de ar quente atingiu uma linha de energia e pegou fogo ...Merkel dice que el Gobierno alemán apoyaría la unión de Siemens y Alstom
La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, dijo el sábado que su Gobierno apoyaría una unión entre la firma de ingeniería alemana Siemens y ...Violence including Fallujah shelling kills 22 in Iraq
At least 22 people have died at different locations near the Iraqi capital in a fresh wave of attacks, as the country ...Rebels level historic Aleppo hotel in Syria
Opposition forces in Syria said they killed at least 50 government troops when they blew up a hotel in the city of ...