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TEHRAN, Iran - Are these possible barbaining chips for Iran? Shane Bauer, 27, Josh Fattal, 27, and Sarah Shourd, 31, are three American hikers who have been detained since July 31 on charges of illegally crossing the border from Iraqi...

Teheran 11-14-2009 Three young Iranians have been flogged in public in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, after being accused of having sexually abused and forced another boy, who later committed suicide because of the aggression. According to the reports,...

I seem to have to beat a dead horse an awful lot lately. I guess it is appropriate that once again it is over a problem Bush created. As I watch the situation in Yemen devolve and the 2nd link...

Facebook makes it easy to blur the lines between the professional and personal, most experts caution against this, unless, perhaps, you work in the entertainment industry. "When you think about Facebook and other social-networking sites, you have got to think...

Stunned Muslims were trying to understand Friday why a normally soft-spoken Army officer who served on his local mosque's charity committee allegedly fatally shot 13 people at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas. Officials at the copper-domed Muslim...

What's new: more details of her life and voyage to death By Robert Weller, Haiffaa Ali escaped Iraq to join her daughter in Colorado, but the journey was heartbreaking. First, she had to spend five years in Syria, and truth...

Now, the Iranian government has gone too far. The Iranian Internet Crime Unit has now formed a special committee to track all web sites in Iran. The reason this unit was formed was to specifically attempt to squash all communication...

Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern Of course Iran denies it and warns us to mind our own business. Warns those in the region, do not pour oil on the fire! Saudi combat jets hit rebel targets in Yemen...

By Yoram Getzler Abbas/Obama Law of Unintended Consequences The developing Abbas catastrophe is another indication of the enormity of the Obama policy disaster. And/or is it an expression of the mistaken policy proposals of his advisors, principally David Axelrod, Rahm...