OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel vowed Tuesday to target the leadership of Islamic Jihad, as victims of a suicide bombing by one of the Palestinian group’s members were laid to rest. Hours later, Jihad expressed its continuing commitment to a truce agreed in March, and said the bombing was in …

BRUSSELS — Foreign ministers of the 26-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) here to hold their annual meeting on Thursday will begin with a special off-the-record session devoted to the Middle East, a senior NATO official said on Monday. “What happens in the Middle East is pivotal. There is a …

BAGHDAD — Election posters promising a stable Iraq cut no ice with men like Abu Mohammed, who runs a women’s clothing boutique in Baghdad’s Adhamiya district by day. By night Abu Mohammed is an insurgent, attacking US military convoys with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles, fighting Iraqi troops and …