Palestinians decry forced deportations to Gaza by Israel

One was a college student hauled off a public bus in the West Bank, blindfolded and deported to the Gaza Strip, two months shy of her...

Turkey holds funerals for Gaza flotilla activists

The wooden coffins of eight activists killed by Israeli commandos wound through the streets of Istanbul on Thursday as Turks wept and...

Director goes off Egypt's script

In the sweltering heart of a poor country, where desperate men board smuggling boats heading for uncertain lives across the sea, a Christian...

Netanyahu ignores calls for investigation of raid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a vigorous, unapologetic defense Wednesday of his government's deadly raid of a protest...

Israel sees no need to apologize for raid

Israel struck a defiant tone Tuesday over its lethal takeover of a humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, saying it had nothing...

Israeli academic says flotilla crisis could have been prevented

Baghdad's Green Zone: Safety inside, resentment outside

They called it the Green Zone because within its fortified blast walls lay a sanctuary for Americans, a place so secure that weapons could...

Israel raid makes for another awkward moment for U.S.

The lethal Israeli commando raid that brought worldwide condemnation down on the Netanyahu government this week was also a reminder to...

Final count shows Iraq vote unchanged

Iraq's national election results were finalized Tuesday, nearly three months after the balloting for parliamentary seats heightened...

Egypt opens border with Gaza Strip

Egypt's decision Tuesday to open its border with the Gaza Strip after Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla highlights the difficult...

Israel criticized over raid on Gaza flotilla

Israel faced a global diplomatic firestorm Monday over its deadly raid on a protest flotilla carrying humanitarian aid that was attempting...

Israel flotilla raid deals a blow to ties with Turkey

Turkey, a longtime ally of Israel, recalls its ambassador and calls off joint military exercises as Turks take to the streets in protest....

Israeli filmmaker adopts camel race dream

Ezry Keydar and Nadav Ben Israel, two Israeli filmmakers, began making a documentary last year about a Bedouin man's dream of restoring...

Egyptian dissident a double outsider

Stiff and sore from his latest police beating, Bahaa Saber wiped back the tears of a man trapped in two lives: a homosexual seeking...

Israel plows new ground in exotic crops

If Willy Wonka had a farm, it would fit right in here in Israel.

Serviceman and Iraqi wife caught in a paperwork prison

When David Bloom of Los Angeles shipped to Iraq in 2005 with the U.S. Army Reserves, the last thing he expected to find there was a wife....

Two Arab Israelis charged with spying for Hezbollah

Two Arab Israelis were indicted Thursday on charges of spying for the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah, but their supporters dismissed the...

Russia lashes out at Iran

A top Russian official Thursday dismissed criticism from the Iranian president as "emotional," and expressed frustration over what he...

Israel's Arab-Jewish conflict played out on a soccer field

Any soccer fanatic gearing up for the World Cup will tell you that national pride is on the line with every game. When that pride is...

15 killed in Baghdad gold market robbery

Masked gunmen killed 15 people in a daring daytime robbery Tuesday, blasting their way into a Baghdad street of goldsmiths and shooting...

Baghdad's tepid nightlife

Cops stormed in and shut the place down. Up the stairs and out into the warm spring night the tipsy customers stumbled, along with a...

On being an Arab lawmaker in Israel

As one of Israel's few Arab lawmakers, Ahmad Tibi knows how to fight to be heard, even when colleagues don't want to listen.

Brazil's diplomacy on Iran points to larger ambitions

At first glance, it is hard to see why Brazil, a country better known for beaches, soccer, and carnival, would want to get involved in the...

Iraq frees two Iranians arrested by U.S. forces

Two Iranians arrested by U.S. forces in Iraq were released Friday, a day after Iran allowed three young Americans detained in the Islamic...

Iran allows jailed American hikers to meet their mothers

Three Americans jailed in Iran since allegedly straying into the country during a hiking expedition 10 months ago embraced their mothers...