Middle Orient

Recently, there have been a series of high-level meetings of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC) subordinate the Quds Force commanders in Tehran to find new ways in meddling more easily in Iraq.

Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran’s Qods Force in fomenting violence in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday, in some of the most direct accusations yet against Tehran over the chaos in Iraq.

A U.S. military official is charging that Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a “proxy” to arm Shiite militants in Iraq and that the Quds force – an elite military force in Iran – had prior knowledge of a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans …

Europe’s new envoy to Somalia praised the interim government on Monday for steps to reach out to political opponents ahead of a national reconciliation conference intended to end a bloody insurgency.

Most camera-clicking tourists in the Mediterranean this summer will go home, as usual, without one of the world’s most arresting images — Algiers and its bay.

Egypt’s president has denied that the son-in-law of the country’s late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was a spy, the state-run news agency reported Monday, breaking the state’s silence soon after the man’s death.

Seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni drivers were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their convoy at an ancient temple in Yemen on Monday, officials said.

Palestinian groups worked on Monday to end the six-week-old battle in a besieged refugee camp of north Lebanon, as aid workers continued to seek access to trapped civilians.

The government of moderate Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad promised Monday to pay full salaries to tens of thousands of civil servants for at least six months, but also warned that employees cooperating with the Islamist Hamas will be cut from the payroll.

The US military on Monday accused Iran for the first time of a direct role in an attack killing American troops in Iraq, saying it helped direct a sophisticated raid in January in which five soldiers died.