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Major powers signaled on Friday their willingness to reopen talks about curbing Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons but said Tehran must show it is serious about any negotiations.

Most people deciding on the big Sundance awards are festival veterans

In the United States, there is a significant population of Iranians who emigrated from their native country to various cities across the United States. Many, if not most, of these individuals still have ties to Iran: their family and their culture.

The possibility of a war against Iran is no longer in the realm of fantasy.

An Iraq war veteran accused of knifing four homeless men to death, stabbing them each dozens of times in a bloody killing spree that rattled Orange County, California, was charged on Tuesday with murder.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's comment that Turkey is ruled by Islamic terrorists is the latest gaffe by Republican White House hopefuls: foreign policy has been a minefield for these candidates vying to oppose President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.

Rick Perry took a big bite out of Bret Baier's bait during Monday's South Carolina debate when he claimed that Turkey was run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.

Rick Perry has come under fire for his remark at Monday's South Carolina debate that Turkey is run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.

Why would Israel take such a risk to engineer such acts against one of their deadliest enemies, Iran?

Twelve people were killed Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.

Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.

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 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.