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Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Bolani told parliament on Monday that a suicide bomber who attacked the foreign ministry in August made a phone call to Syria before detonating his payload, an MP said.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Damascus can do more to prevent foreign fighters from crossing the border with Iraq, military leaders said.
Thai authorities on Monday sought to unravel the mystery of the ultimate destination of a plane that landed in Bangkok with a huge cache of weapons from North Korea, exported in defiance of a U.N. embargo on arms from the communist state.
QARDAHA, Syria, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Hezbollah ministers and Lebanese political figures expressed their condolences to Syrian President Bashar Assad on the death of his younger brother.
In his Nobel acceptance speech last week, President Obama spoke eloquently on what he called a "just peace"--a peace that is not possible without the recognition of basic human rights. Where human rights are not protected, "peace is a hollow promise," he said.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Monday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Foreign Minist...
The Obama approach to world politics--engage, apologize, avoid friction, be humble, reach out to previously scorned tyrannical regimes--is being criticized nowadays on pragmatic grounds. A record of 10 months shows this modest approach has brought modest if any returns. Low costs, the president's defenders argue, and low risks, so it has been worth trying, even if the gains have been small.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said today it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program.
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Jytte Klausen's book on the Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-06 opens in an unusual way--with a hand-wringing preemptive apology from Yale University Press for not reprinting (despite its profession to be "an institution deeply committed to free expression") the 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that gave rise to the eponymous crisis in the first place.
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Bolani told parliament on Monday that a suicide bomber who attacked the foreign ministry in August made a phone call to Syria before detonating his payload, an MP said.
(RTTNews) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Iranian government to release three young Americans charged with espionage after they strayed into its territory while hiking in Iraq.
The December report rarely provides much in terms of fireworks and the report that was released on December 10 did not prove to be much different.
Iran said Monday it would try three UC Berkeley graduates jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say when proceedings would begin or specify the charge other than to say the Americans had "suspicious aims." In November ...
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California is in the Republicans' crosshairs in next year's election, targeted as one of Congress' most liberal and partisan Democrats as the party swept from power looks to make a comeback, bolstered by anti-incumbency sentiment and...
An amendment approved by the Knesset will advance a bill requiring a referendum on Israeli territorial withdrawal as part of any future peace deals.
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