A former high-level aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer has been sentenced to five years in prison on child pornography charges.

Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...

Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...

The Egyptian government is using swine flu as an excuse to get rid of tens of thousands of pigs raised by garbage collectors who live amid the refuse in Cairo slums....

Armed protesters in Yemen’s troubled south ambushed a military camp Monday, killing one soldier, an official said, as fighting between the government and...

Iran’s supreme leader publicly rebuked the president over his removal of a top official, a rare show of discontent with the hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the...

The Vatican’s representative to the Holy Land is playing down the controversies that could mar a visit next week by Pope Benedict XVI.

Reporters Without Borders says the American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she...

A solid majority of Jewish Israelis worry that President Barack Obama’s outreach to the Arab and Muslim world will come at their expense, a new poll showed...

The Iraqi government says the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from urban areas in Iraq is “non-extendable.”

The cave tucked in the remote Saudi mountains near the Yemeni border was clearly a way station for Islamic militants, Saudi police say, pointing to the stock of guns...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will undergo prostate cancer surgery in the US in the coming weeks.

Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of a 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum...

A Jordanian hotel owner preparing a lunch for the pope spent five weeks coming up with a choice of five menus for the upcoming visit and is still agonizing over what...

Iraqi and U.S. forces have arrested three leading members of a Sunni militia on suspicion of carrying out attacks _ including downing an American military helicopter _...

An Iranian presidential candidate who is wanted by Interpol in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina said Sunday he is willing to cooperate with the U.S. on...

Iran’s foreign minister assured his visiting Japanese counterpart that the case of an American journalist imprisoned in Tehran for allegedly spying for the United...

An Iraqi soldier opened fire on a U.S. military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and wounding three, the U.S. military said, in an attack that could sharpen...

Michael Oren, a U.S.-born academic who frequently appears as a media commentator on Mideast affairs, has been picked as Israel’s next ambassador to Washington, a...

Iran has hanged a young woman who was convicted of murder when she was a minor, her lawyer said Saturday, drawing condemnation from international human rights groups...