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Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday reached an agreement on seat distribution for the upcoming election, an apparent end to a months-long impasse that threatened to delay the vote beyond the end of the current government's mandate. They voted on the deal...

The Lebanese army has thwarted an attack against the United Nations Interim Force in Southern Lebanon, the al-Manar network reported Sunday.   According to the report, Lebanese intelligence forces in the Lebanon Valley arrested four people in possession of large...

Urlau arrived in Gaza Monday, 30 November, and held intensive talks with a number of Hamas officials. The tight-lipped German mediator refused to comment on the content of the talks. However, Hamas officials described the last minute bargaining as "intensive,...

A total of 10 al-Houthi rebels including two leaders surrendered themselves to the Yemeni army and showed readiness to fight against the rebels, military and tribal sources said Saturday. The surrender took place on Friday in Harf Sufyan, the most...

The Saudi military push towards Mount Mamdouh has failed, the Houthis said on Friday, adding that the late evening clashes destroyed three Saudi tanks and killed several soldiers. The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi...

He told a five-person panel the UK needed to "buy" influence with the US adminstration and wanted a "meaty" role as long as the "legal things are in place"...Dominic Asquith, the Foreign Office's director for Iraq and later ambassador there,...

America's second major military "surge" shares the same goal as the first nearly three years ago: to stem runaway violence in Afghanistan as troops did eventually in Iraq...The U.S. reinforcements that poured into the Baghdad region in early 2007 had...

Friday that President Michel Sleiman plans in his upcoming visit to the United States to improve Lebanese-American relations, stress his country’s refusal to naturalize the Palestinian refugees and ensure that Lebanon is not used as a bargaining-chip in diplomatic negotiations....

He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence...Ahmed Subhi al-Fahal's death in a suicide bombing in Tikrit could embolden al-Qaida loyalists to try to make...