AN explosives-filled tractor exploded in a restive region of Iraq`s Diyala province today, killing at least seven members of a local anti al-Qaeda group, a police officer said
ISRAEL plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948
AN Israeli soldier is seen shooting an arrested and bound Palestinian in the leg with a plastic bullet, in a video released by an Israeli human rights group
AT least eight women and one man have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran and may be executed at any time, the lawyers defending several of those sentenced said today
US forces shot dead the 17-year-old son and another relative of the governor of northern Iraq`s Salahuddin province in a raid today, local officials said
US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to set a "time horizon" for US troop withdrawals as part of a long-term security pact
LEBANON`S new telecommunications minister has accused Israel of bombarding Lebanese people with threatening phone calls, a day after a controversial prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah
FIVE Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel have arrived to a hero`s welcome in Lebanon, hours after Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago
Propaganda ... photos released by Burma, like this one of Thai prime minister Samak Sundaravej with cyclone survivors, in no way correspond to eye-witness reports of the horror unfolding there
