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Published Date: 21 November 2009 YOU may know al-Qaeda wants to kill you, but does al-Shabaab, the Islamic militia fighting the UN-backed government of Somalia, perceive the West as a direct enemy? And does the Eastern...
JERUSALEM -- To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of holding new elections, according to...
Defense Attorney Calls it a Case of FBI Entrapment The Sears Tower, pictured, was the target of a plot to blow up buildings in the U.S. (CBS) (AP) The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on...
Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose...
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Measures under consideration in the Turkish government deal with discrimination and human rights for the Kurdish minority community, the interior minister said. Ankara is considering a series of...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations remains committed to monitoring the security situation along the southern border with Lebanon, top peacekeepers said. Italian Maj. Gen. Claudio Graziano, the commander of the...
DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The border between Turkey and Syria is a bond that ties the two neighboring countries together, the Turkish speaker of Parliament said in Damascus. Mehmet Ali Sahin met with his Syrian...
Interior Minister Beşir Atalay has said the government plans to intensify its efforts to bring more than half of those in the Makhmour refugee camp, located in northern Iraq and where most of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers'...
The success of US President Barack Obama's foreign policy hinges on Turkey's role, said Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), during a seminar held at the US Embassy...
By Agence France Presse (AFP) Saturday, November 21, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: A body believed to be that of journalist Alec Collett, killed at the height of Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War was transferred to...
