(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded to overtures from U.S. President Barack Obama amid nuclear talks by sending him a secret letter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Citing an Iranian diplomat, the paper said the Iranian cleric had...

(AFP)- Israel released on Friday a 14-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, whose jailing six weeks ago for planning to attack Israelis became a focus for anger over the arrest of children in the occupied territories. An AFP photographer in the West Bank town of Tulkarem said Malak...

(Reuters) - A bomb detonated by remote control rocked an area near a Turkish police checkpoint close to the Syrian border on Friday, wounding three people, security sources said, the latest in a series of bombings to hit Turkey this year. The sources told Reuters the...

An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of two journalists from Qatar's Al Jazeera television network at the first session of a retrial in which they face charges of "abetting terrorists" and "broadcasting false news. " The Cairo Criminal Court ordered that...