Category: Middle East

 MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school on Wednesday, wounding 22 people before he...

Police say a University of Arizona student died after falling from a roof-top structure at a residence hall Friday morning. Police said 19-year-old freshman Michael Evan Anderson from Mission Viejo,...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A longtime aide to Republican NeAn investigation of traffic jams created near the George Washington Bridge in a political payback scandal. Attorney Anthony Iacullo tells ABC...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has a lot on his plate these days, not least of all the world’s focus on Iran’s nuclear program. But he still managed to find time...

BEIRUT (Codewit) – The head of the Syrian rebel Liwa al-Tawhid Brigade has died of wounds he suffered in a regime air strike last week, the rebels and a monitor...

BEIRUT(AFP) – A Syrian lawmaker kidnapped by opposition jihadist fighters earlier this year was executed last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. A parliamentary source in...

BUFFALO — Michael Israel's death of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2011 was a tragedy. The Buffalo 20-year-old had become despondent about his addiction to the powerful painkillers prescribed for...

WASHINGTON — President Obama told congressional Republicans on Wednesday he will not negotiate major budget issues until the government is re-opened and the debt ceiling is increased.   "The president...

BERLIN (Codewit) – The German government on Monday admitted it had approved as recently as 2011 the export to Syria of chemicals that could be weaponised, and in larger quantities...

QUETTA  (AFP) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck a remote part of southwestern Pakistan jumped to 173 on Wednesday, officials said, as rescue teams rushed to the...