Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, passed away at 96 in a nursing home in Herzliya, Israeli officials said Saturday.
How powerful is the Syrian military? How do Western nations stack up against it? And would it be wise to intervene in the first place?
The Iraq capital has seen a wave violence in recent days.
It's an open secret Ann Curry will be replaced on the Today show. She'll announce her exit Thursday morning.
South Korea announced it will halt imports of Iranian crude oil as the European Union's ban on insuring oil shipments from Iran comes into effect toward the end of the month.
The 54-cent decline in the average price of gasoline over the last 3 months should add approximately $54 billion of incremental income to U.S. consumers.
What is so special about the term civil war, and why are governments, media and analysts shying away from openly using that label to describe what's happening in Syria?
During the 1960s, the US and the UK cooperated on a plan to clear a remote archipelago for military use. The exiled islanders are still fighting for their right to go back home.
In the wake of the Syrian downing of a Turkish F-4 Phantom reconnaissance jet on Friday, there has been a great deal of restraint, but it appears Ankara's patience with Damascus may be wearing thin.
Hope is quickly fading for about 90 individuals still missing after a boat bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia near Christmas Island.
Asia's top buyers of Iranian crude oil have found ways to continue the imports, bypassing the U.S. and European Union sanctions on trade with Tehran, to avoid depending entirely on the Saudi Arabian oil amid unsteady supplies from Libya and Iraq.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest for violating the terms of his bail after entering the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is seeking political asylum to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. But he may really be trying to escape the long arm of the United States, not the Swedish government.
Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish militants have intensified after eight soldiers and 10 militants were killed near Turkey's border with Iraq in the worst fighting this year Tuesday.
The State Department on Tuesday warned Iranian exile group Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, to comply with its relocation from Iraq's Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya if it hopes to be removed from the United States' list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq withdrew his name on Monday after Republican lawmakers questioned his suitability following revelations that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with a journalist who later became his wife.
There's concern among some U.S. lawmakers that recent national security leaks that allegedly originated in the White House may have, among other consequences, jeopardized the security of Americans conducting the operations.
President Obama is continuing to support Brett McGurk's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq despite a burgeoning controversy over McGurk's alleged affair with a journalist.
In the latest blow to international efforts to stem the spiraling bloodshed in Syria, the United Nations has announced it is suspending its observer mission.
Caught in the middle of a bloody 15-month-long uprising are Syria's 2 million Christians, who are wary of leaving behind a repressive and totalitarian regime.
Josh Henderson talks about his meemaw.
The book ?Founding Myths? was particularly critical of what Garaudy viewed as excessive Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy.
JetBlue is being sued by 10 passengers, claiming the airline was grossly negligent in allowing pilot Clayton Osbon, who had to be restrained after he burst through the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorism on a March 27 flight from New York to Las Vegas, to man the plane that day.
