Middle East Politics News

Tehran says the prisoners had connections to "counter-revolutionary groups," but activists say Iran is going too far in persecuting dissenters. Host Scott Simon talks to Hadi Ghaemi, director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

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.

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...

Police suspect that a 16-year-old youth who allegedly stabbed an Arab man in Jerusalem Thursday is a serial attacker of Arabs. At court on Friday, police representatives requested the extension of the boy's remand, saying they suspected him of additional...

A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed with the judge and with the defendant, but was not made...