Lebanon's prime minister paid a visit to Iraq on Wednesday -- the first such visit by a Lebanese leader in the post-Saddam Hussein era -- and he and his Iraqi counterpart discussed issues including oil exports and investment.
Arab foreign ministers are expected to discuss a proposal Saturday calling on Sudan's president to hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects to an international tribunal in an effort to fend off the longtime leader's own prosecution
Sudan has asked for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers ahead of the expected indictment of the country's president for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, according to reports.
The Lebanese government announced Friday it has reached a unity Cabinet aimed at stabilizing the country torn by internal strife.
Dubai has forgiven the nearly $7 billion Baghdad owes it, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Sunday.
Jordan's King Abdullah II will travel to Iraq soon, a top Iraqi official said Wednesday, becoming the first monarch of an Arab country to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than five years ago.
The United Arab Emirates is expected to soon name an ambassador to Iraq and could open an embassy in the war-ravaged nation, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
Sunni Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan must pitch in on the rebuilding effort if Iraq is to witness progress and blend its Sunni population into the political fold, Sweden's foreign minister said Wednesday.
In his first address to Israel's parliament Thursday, President Bush reiterated the United States' "unbreakable" alliance with the Jewish state and denounced calls to negotiate with "terrorists and radicals."
Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday said reaching a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine within the next eight months "might be improbable but it's not impossible"
Lebanon's prime minister paid a visit to Iraq on Wednesday -- the first such visit by a Lebanese leader in the post-Saddam Hussein era -- and he and his Iraqi counterpart discussed issues including oil exports and investment.
Arab foreign ministers are expected to discuss a proposal Saturday calling on Sudan's president to hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects to an international tribunal in an effort to fend off the longtime leader's own prosecution
Sudan has asked for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers ahead of the expected indictment of the country's president for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, according to reports.
The Lebanese government announced Friday it has reached a unity Cabinet aimed at stabilizing the country torn by internal strife.
Dubai has forgiven the nearly $7 billion Baghdad owes it, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Sunday.
Jordan's King Abdullah II will travel to Iraq soon, a top Iraqi official said Wednesday, becoming the first monarch of an Arab country to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than five years ago.
The United Arab Emirates is expected to soon name an ambassador to Iraq and could open an embassy in the war-ravaged nation, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
Sunni Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan must pitch in on the rebuilding effort if Iraq is to witness progress and blend its Sunni population into the political fold, Sweden's foreign minister said Wednesday.
In his first address to Israel's parliament Thursday, President Bush reiterated the United States' "unbreakable" alliance with the Jewish state and denounced calls to negotiate with "terrorists and radicals."
Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday said reaching a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine within the next eight months "might be improbable but it's not impossible"
President Bush leaves for the Middle East on Tuesday to celebrate the United States' ties with its top allies in the region -- Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.
More clashes erupted in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli on Monday, as fighting between the Hezbollah militia and its rivals who support Lebanon's Western-backed government entered a fifth day.
The Hezbollah-led revolt to topple Lebanon's U.S.-backed government triggered new fighting Monday in the northern port city of Tripoli.
The President plans to meet next month with Arab leaders to pursue an agreement by year's end. But Israeli Prime Minister Olmert may be a no-show
Jordan, Iraq and Yemen announced at the last minute Friday that their top leaders will not attend this weekend's Arab summit in Damascus
The U.S. Navy has moved the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole and other ships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The U.S. reinforced its close ties with Jordan this week by increasing aid to the Kingdom by 48 percent.
As the President ends his tour, even supposed friends are more skeptical than ever of the U.S.'s ability to deliver
The first bomb attack on U.S. diplomats since 1990 sends shudders through a small but growing American community
Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison in a case that sparked international attention, a Saudi newspaper has reported.
An audio message purportedly from Osama bin Laden's deputy has criticized Middle East leaders who attended last month's Annapolis peace summit, reminding them they are fighting a "single jihad" against the "Zionist enemy."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "extremely concerned" about the delay in electing a new Lebanese president, a hiatus that has gone "well past the constitutional timeframe."
President Bush on Wednesday told CNN he would personally "facilitate" peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, saying the formation of a democratic Palestinian state was the best way to bring peace to the region.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States will try to get an agreement on Mideast peace before the end of the Bush administration.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will travel to Annapolis, Maryland, next week where they hope to jump-start the long-dormant Mideast peace process.
The United States won no specific new promises of Arab help for struggling Iraq after a gathering Tuesday of several nations listed as recipients of an expanded aid and weapons package for friendly states in the region.
The visit of Egyptian and Jordanian ministers to Israel offers hope. But Arab enthusiasm for peace talks may be fading
A Mideast peace conference called for by President Bush will take place in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York
The meeting of Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian President Abbas is designed to warn Hamas about going it alone
A member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza late Sunday, Palestinian security sources said.
The declaration by Hamas that it is in control of Gaza left many nations in the Middle East and beyond scrambling to determine what to do next -- and wondering how the recent crisis will affect plans for a permanent peace in the region.
The current juncture in Middle East diplomacy presents a golden but final opportunity to resolve the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to Jordan's King Abdullah.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday for a series of meetings with Middle Eastern leaders.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has warned Vice President Dick Cheney that Saudi Arabia would back the Sunnis if the United States pulls out of Iraq, according to a senior American official.
Hundreds of thousands packed Martyrs Square in Beirut on Thursday to honor slain Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, cheering speeches by his supporters who turned the funeral into a show of defiance against Hezbollah and its Syrian backers.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Wednesday his government will survive despite the resignations of six Cabinet ministers this week.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she expected the United Nations to vote "in the next day or two" on a draft resolution that could help end the war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hezbollah.
A deadly Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese town of Qana provoked stiff and swift condemnation across the globe Sunday as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon showed little sign of ending.
Talks between key Middle East players in Rome on a plan for ending the 15-day-old conflict in Lebanon Wednesday failed to reach agreement on an immediate cease-fire.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Beirut and then to Jerusalem Monday in an attempt to carve a lasting solution to the crisis that has claimed hundreds of lives and gutted Lebanon's infrastructure.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the Middle East crisis are unlikely to prove successful until Israel feels it has crippled Hezbollah or President George W. Bush pressures Israel to halt the offensive, Arab diplomats said Monday.
In times of crisis in the Middle East, the world often has looked to the United States for leadership. But this time the Bush administration has largely stayed on the sidelines.
The Middle East peace process is "dead," Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit Thursday to Beirut, where anti-Syrian leaders have been working to oust Lebanon's pro-Syrian president.
Saudi Arabia will continue supporting the Palestinian Authority despite the election of a government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas -- because it does not want to punish ordinary Palestinians, the kingdom's foreign minister said Wednesday.
Secretary Condoleezza Rice travels to Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi this week on a mission that has taken on a new urgency in the face of Iran's nuclear defiance and Hamas's assumption of control over the Palestinian parliament.
Syria's former vice president says the country's leader is a "traitor" who has damaged Syria and caused it to be alienated from the Arab world.
The Libyan Supreme court has overturned the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus, according to Libya's official news agency.
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday vowed to back a crackdown on al Qaeda after confirming that four people from the terror group carried out the Amman hotel attacks -- three suicide bombers and the wife of one of the attackers.
Days before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein agreed in principle to accept an offer of exile from the United Arab Emirates, but the deal fell through, a UAE government senior official told CNN.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have agreed to meet Tuesday in an effort to push the peace process forward, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials.
Key U.S. ally Saudi Arabia has named Abdullah its new monarch to succeed King Fahd who has died after guiding the world's largest oil exporter through 23 turbulent years.
Fiorentina said Thursday it has reached an agreement with Palermo for the transfer of Italy striker Luca Toni.
A diplomatic huff between Jordan and Iraq which prompted them to withdraw their envoys shows signs of subsiding.
Lebanon's president says his government will share with a U.N. inquiry any evidence gathered on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced a cease-fire at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Tuesday. Following is a transcript of Sharon's address:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced a cease-fire agreement in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Tuesday. Following is a transcript of Abbas' speech:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced a cease-fire Tuesday, hailing it as a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East.
A cease-fire deal is expected to be announced Tuesday when Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Egypt.
Making her first overseas trip as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice is meeting with European and Middle East leaders.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have accepted invitations for a summit next week in Egypt, officials on both sides said Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia says it is withdrawing its ambassador to Libya and ordering out its envoy in response to reports that Tripoli plotted to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said there appears to be solid support at the international conference on Iraq for that country's elections to be held on time -- just over two months from now.
The following is a list of world leaders and representatives that CNN has confirmed will attend Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo, Egypt:
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been elected chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as expected, following a unanimous vote by the PLO executive committee, according to Palestinian officials.
The eldest son of the late leader of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to his father, official sources have told CNN.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed to kidnappers in Iraq to release British hostage Ken Bigley, Libya's official JANA news agency said.
Ireland has issued a passport to British hostage Kenneth Bigley in the hopes it will help secure his release in Iraq.
The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says his charity group is helping to secure the release of British hostage Ken Bigley from his Iraqi captors.
With French officials mounting a diplomatic offensive, the Arab League says it has won another 24-hour extension for two French journalists being held by a radical Islamic group in Iraq.
Two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq have pleaded for Paris to meet their captors' demands and reverse a ban on Muslim headscarves for girls in public schools.
U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson is waiting in Tripoli for a meeting with Libyan officials to discuss the north African nation's role in the crisis in Sudan.
A prominent U.S. Muslim leader told a court that he was involved in an alleged Libyan plot to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday after 24 years, the State Department said.
Saudi Arabian and U.S. authorities are investigating an alleged plot by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Abdullah, according to law enforcement authorities in both countries.
President Bush has told world leaders at the G8 summit in Georgia that NATO should take on a bigger role in Iraq -- a proposal that French President Jacques Chirac greeted with reservations.
Arab leaders concluded a two-day summit in Tunisia on Sunday by agreeing to embark on a path of reform "according to our own culture and terms of reference," Tunisia's foreign minister said.
The Arab world should be showing "a higher level of outrage" over the death of an American businessman whose beheading was posted on an Islamist Web site last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed to all nations to follow his country's example and eliminate all weapons of mass destruction.
Former CNN correspondent Rym Brahimi is engaged to Jordanian King Abdullah II's half-brother, Prince Ali, the palace announced Friday.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa is expected to tour Arab capitals in the days ahead to discuss plans for a summit in the wake of the cancellation of a meeting that was to begin Monday in Tunisia.
Egypt has offered to host the Arab League summit after the annual event was abruptly postponed just two days before the meeting was to start in Tunisia.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has met Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for historic talks. CNN anchor Monita Rajpal discussed the implications of the visit with Gary Samore, a senior fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies who previously advised the Clinton administration on weapons issues.
Libya can be an important partner in fighting terrorism if it fulfills its pledge to give up weapons of mass destruction, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said following a historic meeting with Moammar Gadhafi.
British PM Tony Blair has praised Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi for his decision to renounce terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns met with Moammar Gadhafi in Libya on Tuesday amid speculation that the United States may soon lift sanctions against the North African nation.
A delegation of U.S. politicians has met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a landmark visit to Tripoli.
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