Saddam's trial 1,100 lawyers quit his team
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Saddam Hussein's lawyers face major challenges from the United States and Iraq to their demand to move...
But her story is doubted by some in Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan — The televised confession of an Iraqi woman — accused of being the fourth would-be suicide attacker — set Jordan...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi troops trying to stem the flow of insurgent fighters from Syria launched a dawn assault today on a border town, killing 37 militants.
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Unemployment at 11% in nation
BERLIN — Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel on Saturday pledged that her coalition will work to reverse Germany's "downward trend." Amid cri...
Bombers were non-Jordanians
AMMAN, Jordan — Three "non-Jordanian" suicide bombers belonging to al-Qaida in Iraq carried out Amman's triple hotel attacks that killed at le...
Saddam chief still at large has died
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The highest-ranking leader still at-large from Saddam Hussein's regime has died, a Baathist Web site reported Saturda...
TRAPPES, France — For the Muslims of Trappes, decades of praying in basements and cramped rooms in decrepit buildings will soon be over, once the finishing touches are a...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's president Thursday reiterated his country's innocence in the killing of a prominent Lebanese politician. He pledged to cooperate — for now — wi...
13 relatives killed by blast in Amman
AMMAN, Jordan — At the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the bomber was a middle-aged man in a suit who spoke Iraqi-accented Arabic and told securi...
At least 60 dead in hotel attacks
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordanian police said today that they had rounded up 120 people, mainly Iraqis and Jordanians, in a nationwide hunt for ...
