Muasher refutes Washington Post article on US plans to move military equipment to Jordan to pressure Damascus THE UNITED STATES expressed concern Thursday at the delay in questioning of six Syrians about the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister, and reminded Damascus of the UN demand for full cooperation in …

TEHRAN (AP) — They said the satellite would be purely scientific. But a month after its launch — and only weeks after the Iranian president said Israel should be wiped off the map — the head of Iran’s space programme now says the Sina-1 satellite is capable of spying on …

BAGHDAD — A month before Iraq holds elections, Washington and the government it backs in Baghdad find themselves battling for credibility, rather than being able to tout progress towards democracy and human rights. With the discovery of a torture bunker at Iraq’s interior ministry in Baghdad, and the admission that …