Middle East

MOSCOW – Israel will erect a memorial commemorating the Red Army’s crucial role in the victory over the Nazis, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin at a photo opportunity before their meeting Tuesday.

The U.K. and several other European countries said that passports used by 11 suspects wanted in connection with the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai had been faked.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of Saudi college women on Tuesday that it is the shared responsibility of Iran's neighbors to ensure it does not get nuclear weapons.

Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri has urged France to take a firm stance against Israeli aggression on his country.

Iran's nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi says France, Russia and the United States have presented a new proposal to Tehran involving the exchange of its stockpile of low grade uranium. But U.S., Russian and French officials are denying a new ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iran is “moving toward a military dictatorship,” using the stark assessment to rally support for sanctions aimed at reining in the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.

Six British passport holders dressed in tennis clothes and wearing false beards and wigs were involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Dubai, police in the Gulf state have claimed.

A British journalist has been arrested in Gaza on suspicion of endangering the security of the state.

The Palestinian president suspended his chief of staff Sunday, the official news agency said, after allegations by an ex-security officer that he tried to exploit his influence for sexual favors.

An man dubbed Israel’s Josef Fritzl was indicted yesterday on charges including enslavement, rape and incest over a cult-like harem in which he fathered dozens of children with 32 women.