North Korea's foreign minister and his Swedish counterpart concluded Saturday three days of discussions focused on reaching a peaceful solution to the nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula. "The foreign ministers discussed opportunities and challenges for continued diplomatic...

FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football, a move hailed by the country's sports authorities Saturday as a boost for its most popular game. "We are allowing international matches to be staged in the cities of Arbil, Basra and Karbala," FIFA president...

 Israeli forces have arrested a brother and an uncle of a Palestinian accused of killing two soldiers in a West Bank car ramming late on Friday, the army said. The alleged driver of the vehicle -- identified as Alaa Kabha, born in 1991 -- was already in custody having been detained...

KABUL (AFP)- A car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday killed at least two civilians, as the militants maintain pressure on the capital amid growing calls for peace talks. Several others were wounded in the morning rush-hour suicide blast in an industrial area of...