Middle East News

A nation-wide excitement is building up as six Omani and expatriate artists are in the final race for the best portrait of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said in the ‘Qaboos Oman’ painting competition. The SMS voting campaign to choose...

Iranian officials say defense forces will practice aerial defense maneuvers against a simulated enemy next week to prepare for any attack against the country's nuclear facilities. In an interview published in Iran's semi-official Fars news agency, Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani...

The Kuwaiti premier was welcomed by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki upon his arrival at the Mehrabad International Airport on Saturday morning. The Kuwaiti official is expected to discuss issues of mutual interest during his two-day stay in Iran.

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 Palestinian officials and outside analysts. The Palestine Liberation Organization's Central...

As a singer, he is a right oh-ffensive tackle. The dozen or so soldiers from the Pittsburgh-based 336th Military Police Battalion in Baghdad on the other end of the webcam audio yesterday could have earned Purple Hearts merely for listening....

The new Lebanese government would do well to put high on its agenda one of the chronic stress points in the country, but one that now shows glimmers of hope of being resolved: Palestinian-Lebanese relations. This is one of the...

The government of Pakistan is expected to hand the alleged perpetrators of an October bombing in southern Iran over to Tehran, Iranian leaders said. Pakistani ties with Iran soured in the wake of an Oct. 19 bombing at a conference...

Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support on Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks, as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world. Speaking at a forum in the coastal...