BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says a rocket or mortar has slammed into Baghdads guarded Green Zone....

An imprisoned militant whose release has been demanded by the kidnappers of five British hostages has been freed, US and UK officials say.

Ministry officials say blast occurred late Wednesday in mostly Shi'ite district of southwestern Baghdad

Statement documents at least five incidents in last month in which Iraqi teenagers targeted troops in northern Iraq

Refugee agency appealing to international community to maintain support for Iraq

Police say someone planted the bomb under a minibus early Monday in Abu Dsheer, a Shi'ite enclave in the mainly Sunni Dora district

A foreign students' dormitory for the American University in Cairo has been put under quarantine for seven days Monday after two US students were diagnosed with swine flu, health and university officials said. The two cases were discovered Sunday night

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Monday called for an end to a row with Kuwait over two-decade-old UN sanctions under which Baghdad must make multi-billion-dollar payments to its Arab neighbor. Talabani, in a statement on his website, rejected what he

Two people died and four were wounded in clashes on Monday between security forces and protesters in south Yemen, where secessionist sentiment is strong, a medical source said. The deaths bring the toll to 11 civilians and 11 soldiers killed

The United States said on Monday it would make a new push for Israeli-Palestinian talks and US envoy George Mitchell, en route to the region, hoped to lay the groundwork. "The president has told me to exert all efforts to

North Korea, facing UN sanctions for last month's nuclear test, on Monday raised the stakes in its growing confrontation with Washington by sentencing two US journalists to 12 years hard labor for "grave crimes." The sentence follows US Secretary of

International and domestic election observers on Monday congratulated Lebanon on the peaceful holding of democratic elections, but noted the need for additional political reform.Despite a collection of electoral law violations, Sunday's vote, which saw Lebanon's ruling March 14 alliance retain

Official results issued by the Interior Ministry on Monday confirmed that the March 14 Forces achieved victory in the elections, with 71 seats against 57 seats for the opposition forces. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman expressed his satisfaction over "the transparent

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday his group accepted the result of Lebanon's parliamentary elections, which saw a triumph of the March 14 Forces. "We accept these results ... with sportsmanship and in a democratic way and we

Monolithic sectarian voting by Lebanon's Sunnis and Shiites decided the results of Sunday's general elections, upending conventional wisdom that the country's Christians would determine the vote's winner, a number of analysts told The Daily Star on Monday. Christian-majority districts remained

The international community welcomed Monday the results of Lebanon's Sunday parliamentary polls, in which the previously ruling March 14 majority defeated the Hizbullah-led March 8 opposition. The elections were keenly observed by neighboring countries like Israel as well as Saudi

It's official. US mock pundit Stephen Colbert has declared victory in the war in Iraq. The top US commander in the country, though, demurs. Wearing a camouflage suit and tie, Colbert brought "The Colbert Report" to hundreds of US troops

A solo percussion concert might sound an odd idea. There is a stripped-back austerity to the idea of a single musician hitting sticks against objects. Dirk Rothbrust, a German percussionist, surprised many audience members at the Sunflower Theater Thursday with

A leading economist advised on Friday the winners of the forthcoming parliamentary elections to avoid any attempt to intervene in the monetary policies of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh. "Irrespective of who wins the elections in June 7, preserving the

It's ironic that the winning side in Sunday's parliamentary elections, the March 14 movement, will have about the same number of seats as it did when it emerged from the last "dramatic" election round, in 2005.The numbers might be the