Kirkuk, Asharq Al-Awsat - Brigadier General Halkut Abdullah, commander of the Kurdish security force "Asayish" [Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's security forces] in the city of Kirkuk, has stressed
BAGHDAD, (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for discussions with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi officials, hoping to iron out remaining differences
WASHINGTON, (AP) - The U.S. cruise missile strike on an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 1998 was meant to kill Osama bin Laden. But he apparently left shortly before the missiles struck,
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded on Thursday by a car bomb which ripped through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the local governor said. Television
BAGHDAD, (AP) - An al-Qaeda in Iraq front organization is claiming responsibility for a suicide attack that killed a U.S.-allied Sunni leader in northern Baghdad on Sunday. The Islamic State of
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, killing 11 people a day after a suicide bombing in a neighboring region
BAGHDAD (AP) - The Lebanese prime minister met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday, becoming only the third top Arab figure to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Fuad Saniora
AMMAN, (Reuters) - Jordan, under public pressure after a recent Hezbollah-Israel prisoner swap deal, on Wednesday freed four inmates handed over by Israel last year to finish their sentences at home,
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Sudan's president denies that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur. The International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted Omar al-Bashir
KABUL, (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday just two days after Taliban forces killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 in an ambush east of the capital, Kabul. Sarkozy,
