PALESTINIAN security forces in the occupied West Bank today arrested dozens of demonstrators calling for the resurrection of the Islamic caliphate, security officials said
ELEVEN US soldiers were killed in Iraq in July, the lowest monthly toll since the American-led invasion of 2003, according to figures provided by the Pentagon
ISRAEL faces weeks of political turmoil after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would step down in September in a surprise move that casts a shadow over Middle East peacemaking efforts
ISRAEL`S Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations
IRAQ forces supported by US troops laid siege to the city of Baqouba and arrested 35 suspects today, the second day of a major assault on al-Qaeda fighters in dangerous Diyala province
ISRAELI troops shot three Palestinians with rubber bullets in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics say
A SAUDI appeals court upheld a jail and flogging verdict against a biochemist and his female student whose research contact was ruled to be a front for a telephone affair that led her to divorce her husband
SAUDI Arabia`s religious police have banned selling cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said today
A FATAH military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion today in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinian official had earlier said he had been killed
