Laura King

Turkey's highest court Wednesday decided against outlawing the ruling party, which had been accused of trying to advance an Islamist agenda in officially secular Turkey. The narrow verdict, which came...

U.S. forces acknowledged carrying out a cross-border missile strike Thursday that reportedly killed four civilians in Pakistan, while a suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops instead killed six Afghan civilians. The...

Looking to check out the latest videos of cavorting kittens and lovelorn lip-synchers on YouTube? If you live in Turkey, you're out of luck. A Turkish court, acting on a...

Under growing pressure from the Bush administration and NATO to stem the cross-border movement of Taliban fighters, Pakistan announced Tuesday it would construct a fence and plant land mines along...

Not so long ago, novelist Orhan Pamuk faced imprisonment in his homeland of Turkey. On Thursday, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for novels of rich melancholy that...

A passenger plane swept over downtown Beirut and along the Mediterranean coast Thursday afternoon, a flourish marking the end of an Israeli-imposed air blockade that has isolated Lebanon for weeks....

After more than two weeks of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas, world leaders signaled a sense of urgency Friday to end the destabilizing conflict as Hezbollah launched...

The Israeli government authorized the call-up of as many as 15,000 reservists Thursday, as a senior official asserted that the lack of an international consensus on a cease-fire in Lebanon...

Political change across the Middle East, including a perceptible backlash against terrorism, has opened a window of opportunity to end the decades-old disputes between Israel and the Palestinians, Secretary of...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has been ailing more than a week, collapsed and fell briefly into unconsciousness Wednesday night at his compound, Palestinian officials said. Doctors and senior aides...