The U.N. suspended aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a...

The U.N. suspended aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the Red Cross restricted its convoys after their trucks came under Israeli fire. The threat of a...

Rebels and aid workers say government airplanes have dropped bombs along a northern strip in Darfur. It’s the first such report of violence in weeks.

The U.N. and the Red Cross curtailed aid shipments in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after accusing Israeli forces of firing on their drivers, killing one. The threat of a...

A new international naval force under American command will soon begin patrols to confront escalating attacks by Somali pirates after more than 100 ships came under...

Iran’s top leader banned hardline Iranian volunteers on Thursday from leaving the country to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, but warned that Iran would...

Residents of this northern Israeli town awoke Thursday to one of their country’s worst nightmares: Rockets from Lebanon, and the possibility of a second front in...

A Hezbollah minister in Lebanon’s Cabinet is denying any involvement by the militant group in the firing of rockets from Lebanon into Israel.

Kuwait’s biggest investment bank on Thursday said it had defaulted on the majority of its debt while Bahrain’s two biggest commercial banks saw their...

The U.S. Navy says one of its commanders will lead a new international force to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia.

Six Iraqi soldiers were killed Thursday when an Iraqi army patrol was ambushed by two roadside bombs as they were responding to a mortar attack at a police station...

Israel says it will halt its military action in Gaza for three hours to allow Gaza residents to stock up on supplies.

An Iraqi oil official says the country’s oil revenues were up over 30 percent last year _ to about $60 billion _ despite the sharp decline in world prices in the...

Lebanon’s prime minister has condemned rocket attacks on Israel from his country as well as the Jewish state’s retaliation.

Israeli media say Lebanese militants have fired a second barrage of rockets on northern Israel.

A Lebanese government official says his country is trying to determine who launched rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel.

A Lebanese government official says his country is trying to determine who launched rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel.

Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with...

Police say two roadside bombs have struck an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad, killing five soldiers and injuring eight.

Israeli police say at least three rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon.