BAGHDAD: Fifty-two hostages and police were killed on Sunday when Iraqi and U.S. forces raided a Baghdad church to free more than 100 Iraqi Catholics held by al-Qaeda-linked gunmen, a deputy interior minister said.

Defying international condemnation, US prosecutors have requested an extra 25-year prison sentence for Omar Khadr, a former Guantanamo child detainee who was arrested at the age of 15.

Turkey has termed Israel as the source of Middle East’s instability saying the threat which Tel Aviv poses to Ankara has reached its highest level.Amending the country’s foreign policy vis-à-vis Tel Aviv, Turkey’s National Security Council (MGK) stated that “the region’s instability stems from Israeli actions and policy,” Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported on Saturday.

Security forces in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates have intercepted two small packages containing explosive material that were being shipped by air from Yemen to “places of Jewish worship” in the United States, Barack Obama, the US president, has said.

At least 30 Iraqis were killed and scores of others were wounded on Sunday when a bomber hit at a coffee house in central Iraq’s Diyala province.Friday night’s bombing in the town of Balad Ruz wounded 68 people, according to Ahmed Alwan, a doctor at the general hospital of Baquba, the provincial capital of Diyala, […]

A senior member of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas says Israel will pay the price in case of another offensive against the Gaza Strip.“If Israel tries to enter Gaza, it will cost it a lot and it won’t be able to achieve its goals,” Mahmoud al-Zahar said from Gaza on Thursday.

Israeli police have fired stun grenades and used tear gas to scatter crowds following clashes between extreme right-wing Jewish activists and Arab residents of Umm al-Fahm town.

BAGHDAD (Agencies) Iraq’s supreme criminal court on Tuesday sentenced former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz as well as two other top advisers of late president Saddam Hussein to death.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli ministerial committee on legislative affairs has approved a bill on Sunday, defining Jerusalem as a national priority area of the first order in the housing, employment and education sectors, which practically means giving a boost to Judaization efforts.

A Canadian prisoner in Guantanamo Bay has pleaded guilty to killing an American soldier while he was a young teenager as part of a deal that will allow him to avoid a war crimes trial.