The ancient enmity between Shia and Sunni Muslims exploded in violence again on Saturday in Iraq when a suicide bomb killed at least 50 Shia pilgrims and wounded almost 100 in the southeastern city of Basra, according to Iraqi police and security officials.
A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 15 people in an attack that targeted Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims passing through a checkpoint in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Saturday, police said.
A video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters promises to become an enduring memory of the Afghan war and is already drawing sharp reaction from across the world as it goes viral on the Internet.
A group of U.S. veterans from Veterans for Peace decided to stage an eat in to show solidarity with an Iraqi family in Lowell, Mass. after Babylon restaurant, their family eatery, had a 20-pound rock thrown through its window in an apparent hate crime. This solidarity gives us the courage to stand, owner Ahmed Al-Zubaydi said. There is no more fear in my heart because there are such nice people behind us.
Originally intended as emergency legislation, the law has periodically been amended and extended over the years.
The U.S. government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars housing suspected terrorists in the military prison since 2002. So far, only six people have been convicted by a military commission.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt scored a pow-wow with President Obama and White House officials on Wednesday, bringing together three very famous Americans in the same room.
Deputy Governor Safarali Baratloo said the killing was similar to previous attacks targeting Iranian nuclear scientists.
French cameraman Gilles Jacquier was in killed in Syria on Wednesday while on a government-authorized trip to Homs, the city that has become the symbolic center of anti-government protest in the country.
This week, Tim Tebow told reporters that more than one Republican presidential candidate has called to request his public endorsement. A brand new phase of the presidential primary has begun. You thought Iowa and New Hampshire were big. Those are nothing compared to the Tebow caucus.
The union government has told refiners to reduce Iranian oil imports and find alternatives as New Delhi may not seek a waiver that would protect buyers of Tehran's oil from a fresh round of U.S. sanctions, two industry sources said on Wednesday.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has pulled in a big chunk of the votes in both states where Republicans have voted on potential nominees.
Dictator buddies President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela met to discuss serious matters on Monday, but they lightened up the conversation with jokes about having a “big atomic bomb” at their disposal.
Pierre Prosper, a high-profile attorney advising Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, was hired by Amir Mirzaei Hekmati’s family to seek the release of the American ex-Marine sentence to death in Iran for spying.
In a statement from the White House State Dining Room, President Obama praised Daley's contributions to his administration during his short time of service.
Amir Mirzai Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent, “confessed” to espionage before the court in Teheran.
The split goes all the way back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in the year 632 and it had to do with succession.
An American man, who was arrested last month with charges of working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court.
The Republican debate on Saturday was not intended to give the impression that Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry were reluctant to challenge Mitt Romney -- the presumptive nominee to oppose Democratic President Barack Obama next fall -- but the event certainly had that feel.
When U.S. Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen delivered a speech at Ron Paul's caucus night rally in Iowa on Tuesday, he never expected to become a pseudo-symbol. By the time he finished speaking, the 28-year-old would come to embody a breed of supporter seemingly unique to the Ron Paul universe: The War-Weary Veteran.
A wrongful death lawsuit linked to a defining moment of the Iraq war has ended with the company formerly known as Blackwater agreeing to settle with the families of four security contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush.
Western powers this week readied a contingency plan to tap a record volume from emergency stockpiles to replace nearly all the Gulf oil that would be lost if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources and diplomats told Reuters.
