Police blocked dozens of women from attending a football match Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in what activists said they hoped would have been the first such permission under Hamas' rule. Authorities in the Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas movement told the women they had orders not to...

Eight Iraqis were killed on Saturday, most of them security personnel, in a U.S. air strike that apparently targeted them by mistake, a provincial official said. "Eight people -- a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman -- were killed by a U.S. strike on the...

Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani warned Thursday he would not tolerate any corruption within his ranks, threatening to publicly name any offending employee. "I thought it would be enough to dismiss five judges breaking the law for others to become aware of their...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli leader visits Moscow on Jan. 29, RIA news agency cited a Kremlin spokesman as saying on Thursday.