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By the time he was captured last month, the man known among Iraqi insurgents as "the Tiger" had lost much of his bite. Abu Uthman, whose fierce attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians in Fallujah had earned him a top spot on Iraq's most-wanted list, had been reduced to shuttling between...

The Pentagon plan for future U.S. troop levels in Iraq now under consideration by President Bush resulted from a compromise at the highest levels of the U.S. military, with top Iraq commander Gen. David H. Petraeus initially seeking to sustain the current level of 15 combat brigades through June...

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 -- Iraqi leaders expressed incredulity and disappointment Friday over a report that U.S. officials had spied on Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi leaders.

AFP - Hamas-run security forces dispersed some 150 teachers loyal to the Islamic Jihad movement who had gathered on Saturday to protest against the politicisation of the civil service in the Gaza Strip.

Regarded as a polo-playing playboy in his youth, the catalyst for Asif Ali Zardari's rise was the assassination last December of his wife, the two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The following are some of the major challenges facing Asif Ali Zardari...

The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide victory in Saturday's election.

At least 24 people have died after a rockslide destroys homes in a shanty town in the Egyptian capital, emergency services say.

AFP - Israeli police will decide on Sunday whether to recommend that Prime minister Ehud Olmert be charged in several different cases of suspected graft, public radio reported.

AFP - Israeli security forces seized a large shipment of heroin and cash near the Lebanese border in an overnight raid, police said on Saturday.