A UN agency has suspended its aid operations in the Gaza Strip after an emergency shipment of fuel designated for its use was blocked by petrol-hungry Palestinian farmers
PARTIES that walked out of Iraq`s government last year have agreed to rejoin, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said today, in what could amount to a long-awaited political breakthrough
THE Palestinian Islamist group Hamas today proposed a six-month truce between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with an option to extend it to include Palestinians in the West Bank
SYRIA`S ambassador to the United States has dismissed the White House`s claim today that North Korea had helped it build a nuclear reactor as a "ridiculous story"