Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is charged with running a death squad, told AFP in an interview on Sunday he would not go to Baghdad to stand trial and raised the prospect of fleeing Iraq. In an Al Arabiya report, al-Hashemi said that the charges be
An Egyptian judge ordered the release Sunday of a prominent revolutionary blogger, pending further investigation.
On the eve of the planned arrival of Arab League observers, at least two people died in volatile Syria on Sunday as government forces continued to besiege parts of the activist hotbed of Homs, according to the opposition movement.
Gaza’s prime minister left the territory Sunday on his first trip abroad since his militant Hamas movement seized power in June 2007, hoping to improve ties with Muslim countries swept up in the uprisings convulsing the Arab world. Prime
Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a week after the exit of U.S. forces from the neighboring Arab country. General Hassan Firouzabadi hailed the “forced depa
In a massive rally attended by the representatives of different political factions and religious groups, the new Iraq National Honor Code was launched to determine the main rules according to which the country is to be run following the withdrawal of Amer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up pledges to curb Jewish zealotry in Israel on Sunday after an 8-year-old girl complained of being menaced by ultra-Orthodox men who deemed her dress immodest. While his conservative government insists such inci
Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s ailing former deputy premier now on death row, is no longer allowed to telephone his family from prison in Iraq, his son said on Sunday. “The Americans used to give my father 30 minutes a month to call his f
Pope Benedict XVI uses his traditional Christmas Day message to pray for an end to the bloodshed in Syria.