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How Sectarian Rifts Are Consuming Iraq On May 20 in Basra, a predominantly Shi'ite city in southern Iraq, a bomb ripped through a group of day laborers who had...
IAEA Report: Iran Expands Nuclear Technology
(VIENNA) — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons,...
U.S., Israel Raise Hopes for Mideast Peace Restart
(JERUSALEM) — The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from...
Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country in Deadly Spiral
In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi...
Attacks Kill 95 in Iraq, Hint of Syrian Spillover
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Earthquake in Iran, 1962: Amid the Ruins
Few people on Earth are as familiar with earthquakes as the citizens of Iran. Crisscrossed by a number of major fault lines and almost perpetually subject to...
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Iranian presidential candidates announced; Rafsanjani disqualified
TEHRAN -- A former president supported by Iran's moderates and considered a founding member of the Islamic republic was disqualified Tuesday from running in the coming election,...
Iran's Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I. A. E. A. Report
International nuclear inspectors said Iran had increased its capabilities, but their report suggested that Tehran had not passed a'' red line'' that could incite military...
Iran president denounces aide's disqualification from election
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to ask Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene. Ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also disqualified, wo not appeal. TEHRAN -- Iranian...
Iran Pushes Ahead With Nuclear Plant That Worries West Iran is pressing ahead with...
Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb, a...
