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A Russian-operated ship with "a dangerous cargo" has reached conflict-torn Syria, a source at the vessel's St Petersburg-based firm said on Friday, after being temporarily halted during a refuelling stop in Cyprus.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stressed Thursday that the Jordan-hosted Israeli-Palestinian meetings should create a common ground.
Speaker of Iran's Majles ( parliament) ALi Larijani said on Thursday that his country was positive for holding nuclear negotiations in neighboring Turkey.
The US military said on Wednesday that a new aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea and that another was on its way to the region.
The United States on Wednesday denounced the most recent vandalizing of a mosque and the burning of three cars in the West Bank.
The US Marine Corps said Wednesday it is investigating an Internet video that showed several soldiers were urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan.
The US State Department said on Wednesday that it has ordered a further reduction in staffing of the US embassy in Syria due to security concerns.
US Defense officials said on Wednesday that they believe tensions between the United States and Iran have cooled down recently.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadineyad started here on Wednesday a 24-hour official visit to Cuba, which includes talks with Cuban leader Raul Castro.
A total of nine people, including a French journalist, were killed on Wednesday and dozens of others wounded after a group of unidentified gunmen fired against a crowd in Syria's central province of Homs.
The death toll in Wednesday's bomb attack targeting an Iranian nuclear site staff in northern Tehran has risen to two, the official IRNA news agency reported.
A permanent representative of the U.S. to the UN, said Tuesday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is stepping up violent activities against civilians.
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