The U.S. military says a group of Iraqi soldiers has donated $500 to help California wildfire victims.

Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue...

Israeli police say Palestinian militants have fired a rocket at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip. No casualties have been reported.

A security official says a shootout between Lebanese soldiers and a group of gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli has left one of the gunmen dead and two...

Thousands of protesters have converged on a central square in Baghdad for a mass prayer called by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in protest of a proposed U.S.-Iraqi...

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq.

When OPEC announced late last month it was cutting crude oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day, the market barely hiccuped.

Baghdad authorities announced a campaign on Thursday to kill stray dogs who roam the Iraqi capital in packs, after a spate of fatal dog attacks left children in some...

Baghdad authorities announced a citywide campaign on Thursday to kill stray dogs in the Iraqi capital after a spate of dog attacks on city residents.

Darfur rebels clashed with Sudanese government forces in northern Darfur on Thursday, leaving at least five rebels and one soldier dead, the government and rebels...

A defense contractor who provided personal security to Afghan and Iraqi leaders has been charged with killing an Afghan civilian.

The Shiite-led government has demanded control over U.S.-funded Sunni groups that revolted against al-Qaida in Iraq in Diyala province by January _ a move that could...

Israeli leaders made a secret journey to neighboring Jordan earlier this week, listening to pleas from King Abdullah II to avert a large-scale military operation in the...

Israeli officials say the country’s prime minister and defense minister made a secret trip Jordan this week to discuss the latest violence in the Gaza Strip with...

The U.S. military says an Iraqi al-Qaida in Iraq leader blamed in the 2004 abduction and murder of an Army reservist has been killed.

Iraqi lawmakers have finished a second reading of the Iraq-U.S. security pact as the parliament was engulfed in protests from opposition lawmakers for a second straight...

A pair of polls published Thursday showed opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline Likud party leading Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s moderate Kadima...

Iraq’s foreign minister says the parliament can still approve a security pact with the United States despite scuffles among lawmakers in Baghdad.

A heated parliamentary debate on the U.S.-Iraq security treaty was called to an early close Wednesday as lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr scuffled...

Leaders of the world’s biggest media organizations filed a protest with Israel’s prime minister Wednesday criticizing the government’s decision to ban...