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Two powers, Qatar and Iran, try to sway Hamas
The courtship of Hamas between rivals Iran and Qatar has been one of the Middle East's intriguing subplots of the Arab Spring. The bloodshed in Gaza ...
Analysis: With cease-fire, US pins hopes on Egypt
In Egypt we trust. In frantic diplomacy, the Obama administration helped seal a cease-fire that puts heavy responsibility on Egypt's young Islamist ...
Hamas cries victory; truce with Israel holds
Hamas leaders and thousands of flag-waving supporters declared victory over Israel on Gaza's first day of calm under an Egyptian-brokered truce ...
Blogger's death in Iran window onto cyber patrols
In his last blog entry, activist Sattar Beheshti wrote that Iranian authorities had given him an ultimatum: Either stop posting his "big mouth" ...
Rights group: Bahrain fails on reform pledge
Bahrain's leaders pushed back against criticism by a leading rights group Wednesday that the Gulf state has failed to follow through with promised ...
Iran's leader stops lawmakers grilling president
Iran's supreme leader has stopped the country's parliament from grilling the president over the nation's plummeting currency and economic crisis, the ...
Commander: Iran missile technology sent to Gaza
Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology to "quickly" produce longer-range missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a ...
In Gaza conflict, Hezbollah stays on sidelines
While the death toll from the Israel-Gaza conflict has mounted, Hezbollah has offered quiet words of encouragement to the Palestinians, pledging ...
IAEA: Iran nuclear program unaffected by sanctions
The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says he has no evidence that international sanctions against Iran have had any impact on its nuclear program.
Iran official: Gaza fighters need to be 'equipped'
Iran says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip should be "equipped" to defend themselves against Israel. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast ...
Syrian Islamists reject Western-backed opposition
Syria's increasingly powerful Islamist rebel factions rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declared an ...
Iran starts building gas pipeline to Syria
Iran has started construction on a $10 billion natural gas pipeline to key ally Syria, a news agency reported Monday, in an apparent nod of support ...
Syrian civil war spillover draws Israeli fire
Israel shelled Syrian fighters after gunfire from their civil war spilled over to the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, the military said Sunday, as ...
Iran holds Syria reconciliation conference
Iran held Sunday a conference to reconcile Syria's government with opposition factions and end the country's civil war, the official IRNA news agency ...
Car bomb in Iraq kills 7, including 3 Iranians
An Iraqi health official says seven people, including three Iranian pilgrims, were killed when an explosives-laden car detonated as they were exiting ...
UN nuclear agency: Iran poised to expand nuke work
Iran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday — a ...
Hezbollah man wanted by US freed from Iraq custody
Iraq freed a jailed Hezbollah commander wanted by the United States on Friday, his lawyer said, returning him home to Lebanon in a move that ...
Report: Iran makes arrests in bombings
Iran's official news agency says authorities have arrested suspects on charges of planting bombs and sabotaging energy facilities. It says they were ...
Helicopter crashes in Iran, all 10 on board die
A helicopter carrying victims of a car accident to a hospital in northeastern Iran crashed on Wednesday and all 10 people on board died, state TV said
Israel prepares new missile defense system
Israel's newest missile defense system, designed to provide another layer of protection against enemy fire, is on schedule for deployment in 2014, ...
Iran postpones second round of subsidy cuts
An Iranian lawmaker says the country's parliament has postponed the implementation of a second round of subsidy cuts until 2013 over fears of stoking ...
Iran says it's tested new air defense system
Iran said Tuesday it successfully tested a new air defense system modeled after the U.S. Hawk system during a drill in the country's east. A senior ...
Iran prosecutor: Blogger died in police custody
Iran's state prosecutor confirmed Monday that a jailed blogger died in police custody last week and that wounds were found on his body, the first ...
Iran's army drill to test new air defense system
Iran's military is to test a new air defense system modeled after the U.S. Hawk system as tensions with the West escalate over the country's suspect ...