• Israel and Iran hold first talks in 30 years Israel and Iran have held their first significant meeting in 30 years but the exchanges between the two adversaries quickly descended into acrimony.
Officials in Tel Aviv admitted on Thursday that...
• British have covered up hundreds of Iraqi casualties, ex-officer says The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police...
• Gates favors diplomacy not military action on Iran U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said diplomacy and sanctions rather than military action are the way to persuade Iran to change its nuclear program as divisions emerge in the Iranian leadership....
• Iran stages missile war games Iran test-fired three short-range missiles on Sunday as the Islamic republic began war games shortly after the UN nuclear watchdog disclosed it was building a second uranium enrichment plant. Hossein...
• Brazil defends Iran nuclear rights (Press TV) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said Iran is entitled to the same rights as any other country in its use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. “I defend for...
• US restrictions on petrol imports to Iran foiled by India and China Attempts by the United States to restrict petrol imports into Iran are being foiled by India and China, whose companies have moved in to sell to the country instead, according to analysts....
• Netanyahu faces storm over secret Moscow visit Benjamin Netanyahu faced the most serious domestic crisis of his six-month premiership of Israel yesterday when he was accused of concealing a visit he allegedly made to Moscow.
Mr Netanyahu's...
• Putin warns against Iran attack Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear programme. Iran's latest proposals on its nuclear ambitions have brought...
• Mosul teeters on brink of conflict Related: Map of MAJOR Iraqi oil fields(Kirkuk and Mosul are located up North); U.S. general wants to move troops to northern Iraq;Negotiations between ruling Sunnis with the Hadbaa Party in Iraq's...
• US military team in Syria for security talks Comment: Regional cooperation between neighboring countries does not exist, can't exist, especially, in the oil-rich Middle East, unless permission to mingle is granted by the powers...
• Money siphoned to insurgents Related: Video: US sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq (U.S. creates and controls all of its "enemies")The top U.S. aid agency has suspended a $644 million Iraq jobs program after two outside reviews...
• Worries About A Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move To Fore in Iraq Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen -- in baseball caps and jeans, wielding Kalashnikov rifles, with the safeties switched off....
• Withdrawal: Iraqi PM Hints He is Open to Longer US Stay (VOA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has hinted that he is open to the presence of U.S. troops beyond December 31, 2011, a firm deadline set by both countries for the withdrawal of all...
• Israeli warships attack Gaza coastline & video about natural gas reserves in Gaza (Press TV) -- The coastline along the Gaza Strip has come under the fire of patrolling Israeli warships which invariably monitor the shores. The barrages, which had taken aim at vast swathes of the...
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