Ellen Knickmeyer

Israel and Syria disclosed Wednesday that they have been holding indirect talks through Turkish mediators since February 2007 and pledged in a joint statement to pursue negotiations "with good faith...

Turkey pressed an intensifying offensive against Kurdish guerrillas in neighboring Iraq on Wednesday, sending warplanes across the border to bomb suspected winter hide-outs of the rebels, the Turkish military said....

A sharply divided UN Security Council voted Wednesday to establish an international criminal tribunal to prosecute the masterminds of the February 2005 suicide-bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

U.S. soldiers rolled up their barbed-wire barricades and lifted a near siege of the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad on Tuesday, heeding the orders of a Shiite-led Iraqi government...

Gunmen in police cars and police uniforms stormed the offices of an Iraqi satellite television channel in Baghdad on Thursday and killed all inside, shooting them or slitting their throats...

Gathering a crowd by hawking half-price flour from a pickup truck, a suicide attacker in the northern city of Tal Afar on Tuesday detonated bombs hidden beneath the flour sacks,...

Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the...

U.S. pilots targeting a house where they believed insurgents had taken shelter killed a family of 12 late Monday, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. The dead included children whose bodies were...

Shiite and Sunni Arab political leaders haggled past a third deadline Thursday without reaching accord on a draft constitution, in the end agreeing to extend the negotiations by 24 hours....

Shiite Arab, Kurdish and Sunni framers of Iraq's new constitution struggled Sunday over whether to ask for more time for their work, facing a deadline in 15 days and with...