Russia, one of the few remaining friends of Bashar al-Assad's regime, just sent the Syrian government some advanced antiship missiles.
The Iranian government says it shot down an unmanned U.S. plane that violated the country's airspace. The result could be a further chilling of Iran's relationship with the West.
A day after the British Embassy in Tehran was ransacked by Iranian students, Britain has sent all of its staff home, Norway has closed its embassy, and an Iranian Parliament member offered up a non-apology, apology for this state-approved, animosity-filled mess.
In today's tour of the Middle East, Iran finds its own Occupy movement, Israel sends a message about dating to American expats and a mystery explosion remains.... mysterious.
Protesters have left two British embassy sites in Tehran after they forced their way inside during a raucous anti-Western demonstration on Tuesday.
The U.S. suspect that an illegal cache of "hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons" found in Libya were supplied to Muammar Qaddafi, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The Republican presidential field briefly flirted with attacking Obama for waging too much war before deciding he's not waging quite enough.
After a Iranian weapons depot mysteriously exploded on Saturday, a "Western intelligence source" told Time what many observers already believed to be true — that Israel was behind it.
Timed only days after a released U.N. commissioned report showing that Iran's nuclear program included activities "specific to nuclear weapons," The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. may sell a package of precision-guided bombs to the United Arab Emirates in order to help "build a regional coalition to counter Iran."
Today, a new report out of London that Israel will launch a military attack against Iran as early as December to halt the development of its nuclear program seized parts of the blogosphere.
One day after the UN officially issued a damning report that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had decided that the best way to respond is to insist that his nation will keep doing what it's doing--but that what it's doing isn't nuclear weapons.
A report from United Nations energy officials claims Iran has already mastered the steps necessary to build nuclear weapons, putting the nation on the brink of joining the world's nuclear powers.
After ten days of hemming and hawing, Google is ready to address — but not apologize to — those users upset by the death of Reader's social features.
Also in the day in sports: Tony La Russa exits the castle, why college football's "game of the century" is bound to disappoint, and Iran suspends two soccer players indefinitely for an "immoral" post-goal celebration.
Arthur Laffer on 9-9-9, Robert Jeffress on religion and politics, and Jordan Tama on the Super Committee
Iran's latest rejection of the U.S. allegations that two of its agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador with a bomb attack in Washington, D.C. claims one of the men is actually a member of an exiled opposition group.
Lawmakers say briefings bear out Iran's plot to kill Saudi ambassador
The U.S. may not have much leverage in responding to the assassination plot
Iran's failed monkey launch is part of its ambitious space program
The president said the Iranian government should be held accountable, but Iran's state media says it's a joke
The U.S. insists its evidence is solid, but experts aren't convinced
The U.S. is increasing its isolation of Iran and warning of retaliatory terrorist attacks
The U.S. has swiftly imposed sanctions on Iranian officials
Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, wanted to hire a Mexican cartel to carry out the hit
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An analysts calls Iran's threat to dispatch warships to the Atlantic "bluster"
The recently freed hikers held a press conference in New York on Sunday
The act of disgust is becoming a U.N. ritual
After two years, the hikers are reunited with family members
Plus: Despite his objections, Julian Assange's memoir will be released as planned tomorrow
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal's detention will reportedly end soon
United Against Nuclear Iran rolls out scary billboards and hotel boycotts
A judge on vacation postpones likely release of Americans held since 2009
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The Iranian president is a notoriously slippery interviewee
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A day after Ahmadinejad's hopeful remarks, other Iranian officials backpedal
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells NBC News that they'll be freed "in two days"
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Iran is trying to keep Assad in power while courting the Arab street
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Iran tries to quash a rash of public water fights
The decision has angered U.S. generals requesting 27,000 troops
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The United Nations' nuclear agency is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is building nukes
Berkeley graduates sentenced in seemingly baffling miscarriage of justice
A Grand Theft Auto director wants gamers to grapple with moral ambiguity
Authoritarian regimes relish turning the tables on their frequent Western critics
Some analysts suspect Iranian or Pakistani assistance
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