DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A suicide bombing outside one of Islam's holiest sites killed four Saudi security forces on Monday, and similar attacks outside a Shiite mosque and a U.S. Consulate in two other Saudi cities raised fears of a coordinated assault aimed at destabilizing the Western-allied kingdom.
Israeli ministers are demanding an end to U.S. spying on Israel following revelations that the National Security Agency intercepted emails from the offices of former top Israeli officials.
The Obama administration is mulling possible discussions with Iran over the mounting security crisis in Iraq, a senior official said on Sunday, in what would mark a major step in U.S. engagement with its longtime adversary.
A U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone arrived Saturday morning at the Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan in the first deployment of such an aircraft in the country.
TEHRAN - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has deplored U.S. president's "inability" to take a wise decision regarding Iran's "flexibility" in nuclear talks.
TEHRAN - The Iranian foreign minister on Monday reacted to an open letter to Iran's leaders by 47 U.S. Republican senators who had warned Tehran that any nuclear deal that the Islamic Republic signs with President Barack Obama's administration won't last after Obama leaves office.
MARJA, AFGHANISTAN -- U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers encountered pockets of stiff resistance and extensive minefields as they sought to press into this Taliban sanctuary in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. State Secretary John Kerry were planned to meet in The Hague, a Russian Foreign Ministry source confirmed to Itar-Tass on Saturday. "Such a meeting is planned," he said.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies.
President Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday said Washington was providing "lethal and non-lethal" support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on U.S. assistance.
The United States has brought first-of-its kind cyber-espionage charges against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into U.S. companies to gain trade secrets.
North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview".
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ The Syrian government on Tuesday accused U.S.Senator John McCain, former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and two others of entering the country illegally.
TEHRAN - Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, has said a nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group (Russia, China, the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany) would benefit the entire world.