Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune

More than 10,000 supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad's Firdos Square on Friday to protest the Iraqi government plan to sign a security agreement with the Uni...

Some Iraqi lawmakers are worried that the security pact with the U.S. will give too much control to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

Israel has a limited pool of celebrities, so when its murderous underworld kingpins go to war, the news media get busy and the public tunes in.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah has marshaled these ambient energies for a highly political project: educating a younger generation to continue its military struggle against Israel.

The biggest UN peacekeeping operation in the world will be increased temporarily to a little more than 20,000 troops and police officers once the reinforcements are deployed.

Several experts said the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps to build a bomb.

As Congo rebel chief Laurent Nkunda seeks to refashion himself as a national political leader, it's not clear if he has the professional staff beneath him to realize his ambitions.

A certain sense of desperation - and weirdness - seems to be creeping across eastern Congo as more territory slips into a jumbled world between government and rebel control.

The Indian Navy said one of its warships had fought a battle at sea with would-be hijackers in the Gulf of Aden.

The prime minister delivered a television address six days before a vote on the agreement in Parliament.