Islamabad (AFP) May 22, 2013 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vowed to strengthen his country's partnership with Pakistan as he arrived Wednesday for a visit less than two weeks after the country's general election. The long-time allies will look to us...

Muscat (AFP) May 22, 2013 US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday discussed a $2.1 billion deal with Omani leaders to supply an American-made air-defence system to the Arab state facing Iran in the Gulf. Kerry told Oman's Defence Minister S...

Doha, Qatar (UPI) May 22, 2013 If there is one strategic weakness or Achilles' heel in U.S. geostrategic thinking, it is a fixation with winning battles and not winning wars. The North Vietnamese famously crowed, "America won every battle and los...

Gunmen burst into a brothel in eastern Baghdad, killing seven women and five men, in the latest violence in a week of bloodshed in Iraq.

One of the most searing episodes from the second Palestinian Intifada was the death of 12-year old Muhammad al-Durra, caught on videotape by a France 2 television reporter. An earlier investigation into the incident by the Israeli military concluded th...

LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate Hamid Khan’s request for re-polling in the constituency of NA-125 Lahore on Wednesday, with Pakistan Muslim...

Jerusalem – The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, focusing attention on the longstanding conflict between the country’s univ...

Dennis Chamberlin To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet tha...