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Palestinians condemn Romney Mideast peace comment
Mitt Romney is undermining hopes for peace and democracy in the Middle East, a senior Palestinian official said Thursday in response to recent remarks ...
Allies use power of purse against Syrian regime
A coalition including the United States, the European Union and the Arab League met Thursday to plot new ways of isolating the regime of Syria's ...
China probes protest around US ambassador's car
China is investigating protesters' harassment of the U.S. ambassador as he attempted to enter the American Embassy, and U.S. officials say Beijing has ...
Italy court upholds American convictions
Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street ...
Iraq nominee says US pressing on use of airspace
President Barack Obama's choice for ambassador to Iraq said Wednesday that Baghdad is accepting Iranian assurances that it is not using Iraqi airspace ...
Ex-police chief in China scandal sought US asylum
Hours after she poisoned a British businessman, Gu Kailai reached out to a trusted ally: Wang Lijun. Gu was the wife of Bo Xilai, the Communist Party ...
Syrian forces, rebels clash near Turkey
Fierce clashes broke out Tuesday between Syrian rebels and regime forces battling for control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey, and ...
Syrian war looms over UN meeting of world leaders
Hovering over this month's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is the international community's failure to end the escalating war ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi supports easing of US sanctions
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began her landmark visit to Washington by declaring Tuesday that she supports the easing of the remaining U.
Militants claim Afghan attack is revenge for film
Islamic militants sought Tuesday to capitalize on anger over an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States, saying a suicide bombing that ...
Romney: 'Great divide' exists over tax philosophy
Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Democratic President Barack Obama believes government should "take from some to give to the others" as he ...
Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film
While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for ...
New Syria envoy visits refugee camp in Turkey
The new international envoy tasked with ending the 18-month conflict in Syria visited a refugee camp in Turkey on Tuesday, saying that he hopes the ...
Tunisia Islamist flees mosque where he holed up
A hardline Muslim leader blamed for encouraging last week's violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia fled through a police cordon ...
Afghans reject US-favored administrative detention
An Afghan judicial panel ruled Monday that administrative detention violates Afghan law, potentially thwarting a U.S. plan to hand over Afghan ...
Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon
In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign ...
Video shows Libyans trying to rescue US ambassador
Libyans tried to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens, cheering "God is great" and rushing him to a hospital after they discovered him still clinging to ...
Obama reassures US diplomats in wake of riots
The White House says President Barack Obama has called officials at U.S. diplomatic facilities in North Africa and the Middle East to reassure them ...
US diplomats in Beirut burning classified material
Diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon ...
Clashes over prophet film; Hezbollah urges demos
Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, ...
Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash ...
Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al-Qaida transit
Syria accused neighboring Turkey Sunday of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross into its territory, as the government and opposition said ...
Egypt denounces breaching of US embassy compound
Egypt's presidential spokesman says the breaching of the U.S. embassy in Cairo during protests over an anti-Islam film was "unjustified," denouncing ...
UN ambassador says Libya attack was spontaneous
A deadly assault on a U.S. consulate in Libya was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said ...
Rebels step up attacks on Colombia energy targets
The port town of Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific coast went dark for more than a week in early August after guerrillas toppled three electricity towers ...