Ashraf Khalil

Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday amid mounting speculation that a long-threatened land invasion of the coastal territory would begin soon. Hamas and...

An Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip killed a top Hamas political and military leader Thursday, along with most of his family, as the militant group launched its own...

Nearly 150 years after Russian Czar Alexander II bought a large plot of land in Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Moscow bearing a...

Dozens of gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms killed a prominent Sunni Arab tribal leader, three of his sons and a son-in-law in their beds early Wednesday morning here, according to...

While publicly emphasizing the need for Iraqis to control their own destiny, the Bush administration is working behind the scenes to coax its closest Iraqi allies into a coalition that...

Islamic militants in Iraq have beheaded hostage Kenneth Bigley, the British Embassy and his family said Friday, bringing a tragic end to the three-week effort to save the Briton's life....

Iraqi insurgents pressed their assault on U.S. forces and their allies Thursday as two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their Baghdad house and three Marines were slain, bringing...

As the investigation of the terrorist attacks on the United States increasingly points to several Saudi and Egyptian nationals, fears grew Thursday from Beirut to Cairo of a swift American...