WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - The United States should offer Pakistan a conditions-based civilian nuclear deal as a way to save the relationship, severely tested during the last decade, as well as secure long-term interests with regard to containing militancy and atomic safety, an American analyst on ...

DAMASCUS   (AFP/Reuters) - A bombing in the heart of Damascus killed at least 13 people Tuesday, as Russia banned its civilian planes from Syrian airspace after the crew of one reported coming under threat over the war-hit country.US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, expressed concerns ...

BAGHDAD  - A total of 4,471 civilians died in Iraq's festering "low-level war" with insurgents in 2012, the first annual climb in the death toll in three years, campaigners said on Tuesday. The deaths, up from 4,059 in 2011, showed militant fighters were still bent on carrying out large-scale ...

WASHINGTON - The United States Monday expressed serious concern over what it considered as the Egyptian ruling military council's move to delay power transfer to a civilian government following the presidential election."We're particularly concerned by decisions that appear to prolong the ...

WASHINGTON - Longtime U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, co-sponsor of the controversial Kerry-Lugar-Bergman Act envisaging $7.5 billion in civilian aid to Pakistan over a five year period, will leave the Senate at the end of this year following his electoral defeat on Tuesday.Lugar, a 35-year veteran of ...