Middle East
Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Thursday, ...Palestinian teen killed in possible revenge attack
The discovery of a body in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday raised suspicions that a missing Palestinian youth had been killed by ...Hamas member killed after Israeli teens found dead
A Palestinian from the militant group Hamas was shot dead when he threw a grenade at forces carrying out an arrest raid ...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.




