BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - Militants blew up a section of a Baghdad water pipeline, shutting off drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people, the U.S. military said on Friday. The explosion on Thursday

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will visit Saudi Arabia next week to seek economic assistance from its ally including help with oil payments, a government spokesman said on

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister hopes to hold another round of peace talks with Syria even though elections are pending and he has only a few months remaining in office, Israeli officials said

GUWAHATI, India, (Reuters) - Indian authorities suspect Islamist groups were behind coordinated bomb blasts in the troubled state of Assam that killed 77 people and wounded more than 320, police said

ATHENS, Greece, (AP) – Saudi Arabia's foreign minister condemned the "outrageous" hijacking of a Saudi oil supertanker by Somali pirates and said Tuesday that his nation would join the international

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran's parliament narrowly approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's choice for interior minister Tuesday, after the previous minister was sacked in a vote by lawmakers over a fake

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan government representatives will meet former members of the Taliban behind closed doors in Saudi Arabia soon for a second round of talks on how to end the insurgency. The

DUBAI, (AFP) – Oil-laden Saudi super tanker Sirius Star seized by pirates in an audacious hijacking way out at sea was Tuesday off the coast of Somalia and the crew is unharmed, the US Navy and the

JERUSALEM, (AFP) – Israel will keep all access to the Gaza Strip closed Tuesday, said an Israeli spokesman. "This decision has been taken by the Defence Minister Ehud Barak because of the continued

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (AP) – A suicide car bomber attacked an army post in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least three people, while violence elsewhere in the region left at least five suspected

DUBAI, (Reuters) - Saudi-owned television station Al Arabyia said on Monday a Saudi crude tanker hijacked by pirates had been freed, citing an unnamed official Saudi source. The U.S. Navy, which

Basra, Asharq Al-Awsat - Following the announcement by anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Al-Sadr Trend of the formation of the "Promised Day Brigade" to thwart the security agreement between

CAIRO, Egypt, (AP) – A judge has banned media coverage of the trial of an Egyptian tycoon with strong political ties who is accused of ordering the killing of a Lebanese pop star. Cameras were kept

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran denied Monday a report it had detained 10 spies who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighboring Pakistan. State television said Saturday the spies were seized

JERUSALEM, (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was expected to press Ehud Olmert on Monday to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza even though the Israeli prime minister accused Hamas of "shattering"

BAGHDAD, (AFP) – Followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were to make a bid Monday to kill a controversial Iraq-US military pact passed by the Iraqi cabinet by trying to block it

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad has called for Arab League action to help break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip. The Syrian News Agency says Assad expressed Syria's deep concern

KUWAIT, (Reuters) - Three Kuwaiti deputies said on Sunday they would seek to question the prime minister over a visit by an Iranian Shi'ite cleric, seen as controversial by local media, reviving a standoff

JERUSALEM (AP) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is expressing strong opposition to Jewish settlement in the West Bank, and officials are speaking of an economic offensive to try to force them

GAZA, (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed four militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he had commissioned a plan for military action in the Hamas-run territory