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  • Tunisian feminist faces 6 months in prison

    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Amina Tyler, the 19-year-old Tunisian woman who scandalized many in the country by posting topless photos of herself online as a protest, could face six months in prison for her latest arrest, her lawyer said Friday. (   05/24/2013 2:26 PM )

  • Iran presidential candidate vows to resist West

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if elected. (   05/24/2013 2:15 PM )

  • Egypt: 3 women killed in suspected 'honor' crime

    LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday. (   05/24/2013 12:40 PM )

  • Russia says Syrian regime agrees to peace talks

    BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government has agreed to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first sign that President Bashar Assad's regime would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition. (   05/24/2013 12:33 PM )

  • 3 al-Qaida members, 2 soldiers dead in Yemen clash

    SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead. (   05/24/2013 11:00 AM )

  • Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy. (   05/24/2013 8:47 AM )

  • Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. (   05/24/2013 8:08 AM )

  • Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel's government should prevent further settlement construction, where possible, to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes. (   05/24/2013 7:16 AM )

  • Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel's government should prevent further settlement construction, where possible, to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes. (   05/24/2013 7:15 AM )

  • Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

    BEIRUT -- Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years. The battles raised the five-day death toll to 16 and fed fears of the Syrian civil war spreading to Lebanon and other neighboring countries. The violence also added to the urgency to US-Russian efforts to bring both sides of the Syrian conflict to a peace conference in Geneva. Members of the Syrian opposition began three day meetings in Istanbul to hash out a unified position on whether to attend, while maintaining that Assad's departure from power should be the goal of the negotiations. Lebanon has been on edge since the uprising in Syria began in March 2011.(   05/24/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government. (   05/23/2013 3:39 PM )

  • Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

    BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years. (   05/23/2013 3:17 PM )

  • Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program. (   05/23/2013 1:55 PM )

  • AP PHOTOS: Egypt's languishing Islamic antiquities

    CAIRO (AP) -- Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets. (   05/23/2013 1:50 PM )

  • Iran's Rafsanjani blasts clerics, says report

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Banned from upcoming elections, Iran's former president has leveled harsh criticism at the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, saying they are doing a poor job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported late on Wednesday. (   05/23/2013 1:31 PM )