Middle East

Newly re-elected Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has reappointed Shia leader Nouri Maliki as prime minister.The move...

Tests on a failed parcel bomb sent on a US-bound cargo flight last month show it...

The IAF objects to a new law which reduced seats from urban areas while increasing representation...

Speaking in Indonesia, he said neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians were making the extra effort...

A senior Iraqi Christian has called on believers to quit the country, after gunmen targeted a...

Tensions are rising between Israeli Jews and Arabs after the demolition of a Muslim house of...

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that "the window is closing" on the possibility of...

Iran says it has arrested four men allegedly paid by a man based in Britain to...

Israel is postponing "strategic dialogue" with Britain over defence and security issues, an Israeli Foreign Ministry...

Multiple explosions rocked several mostly Shi'ite targets across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving a trail of...

Authorities in Tehran, Iran, have given the go-ahead to execute a woman who initially was sentenced...

A US official has told the BBC that suspect packages from Yemen were intercepted in September,...

Pope Benedict XVI is denouncing a wave of anti-Christian violence in the Middle East. The pontiff...

U.S. and British counterterrorism officials say bombs hidden in aircraft cargo apparently originating in Yemen appear...

Iraqi security forces stormed a Catholic church Sunday where gunmen suspected of having ties to al...