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Army Sgt. Victor M. Cota, 33, of Tucson, Ariz., died Wednesday in Baghdad of wounds suffered Tuesday when his vehicle encountered a roadside bomb in Kadamiyah, Iraq, the Defense Department has announced. He was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion,...

President Bush received several rousing standing ovations during his speech Thursday to the Israeli Knesset. Not everyone was quite as enthused. Several Arab Knesset members staged a walkout before the speech, and one Palestinian activist angrily dubbed his speech "a...

Human rights advocates have decried the apparent arrests this week of six leaders of Iran's embattled Bahai community. Rights groups say Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Vahid Tizfahm were all unofficial leaders of Iran's...

Pity Amr Moussa. For months the dour Arab League secretary-general shuttled between his Cairo home and the Lebanese capital in a futile attempt to get Lebanese factions to talk, only to walk away in abject failure. Then along came a...

Cpl. Miguel Angel Guzman was the last to be buried of the four Marines killed by a roadside bomb in Karma on May 2. He was laid to rest Wednesday at Rose Hills Memorial Park, south of Los Angeles. Sgt....

During their regular visits to the far-flung U.S. military bases across Iraq, the generals commanding American forces here usually give handshakes, cigars and perhaps one of their personal collector's coins to a few soldiers chosen to be honored for special...

President Bush arrived in Israel today to help celebrate the Jewish State's 60th anniversary and possibly help nudge along the (so far lackluster) Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he launched last fall. With Bush's time in office winding down, Israeli observers sound...

Scholar and Lebanon expert Augustus Richard Norton recently took time out for a lengthy e-mail interview with the Los Angeles Times about the confusing conflict in Lebanon. Lebanon watchers have been worried for some time that the current political stalemate...

Their technology is beyond placards and clenched fists; their strategies are sketched out in cyberspace, they communicate in acronyms and SMS's. But Egypt’s bloggers and Facebook activists receive the same harsh treatment by police as the country’s less -technically savvy...

"5.4 million Jews live in Israel today -- more than in any period throughout history, but only 0.1% of them believe" in Jesus, says an internal memo of Israel's messianic communities announcing a campaign to spread the gospel throughout the...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's troubles continue to lurch onward with no sign of a quick conclusion. Investigators from the National Fraud Unit raided the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor on Tuesday searching for incriminating documents dated back to Olmert's...

By Raed Rafei in Beirut Last week, I became a victim of the violence against the media that has been part and parcel of the recent fighting and unrest in Lebanon. After taking a photograph of a dying man who...

Saddam Hussein’s regime killed Sabbar Uwaid’s wife and 10 other members of his family. But the aging tribal sheik says one of the greatest tragedies of his life was witnessing the destruction of the lush marshlands that had sustained his...

The Marines in Anbar province are no longer engaged in daily firefights. But courts-martial continue at Camp Pendleton arising from allegations of misconduct by Marines when combat was a daily occurrence. * HAMANDIYA. Lawrence Hutchins (left), convicted as the ringleader...

A number of opposition MPs and independent activists have recently launched a campaign to pressure President Hosni Mubarak’s regime to stop exporting natural gas to Israel. Under the Slogan “No to the Gas Setback”, the opposition gave the government an...