Pakistani police rescued 54 men and 14 young boys Monday from an Islamic religious school and drug rehabilitation facility where they were found chained to one another and held in an underground room, police officials told CNN.
Iran's foreign minister says he backs Syria's president but that the embattled Bashar al-Assad must pay heed to his citizenry's demands amid the country's instability, an Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday.
More than 100 people were killed Monday in and around the northern Syrian city of Jisr Al-Shugur in the third consecutive day of violence there, according to reports from the government and opposition groups.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told an Arab television network that he is "ready to step down with respect and dignity, even within a two hours' notice."
"Down! Down!" the man at my hotel room door said. It was 4:30 a.m. Monday in Ras Lanuf, and I had hoped to get a decent night's sleep for the first time in weeks. Yet again, my hopes were dashed.
The Libyan government -- which has denied access to its country as security forces brutally crack down on opponents -- says it will regard foreign journalists who have crossed its borders as "terrorist collaborators," the U.S. State Department said in a statement Thursday.
The man who pleaded guilty in the failed Times Square car bombing said before the incident that the strike would be a "revenge attack," according to an airing Wednesday on an Arabic-language TV network.
Diva Beyonce Knowles strutting her stuff in the conservative Middle East?
Iran has expelled a BBC journalist who had been based in the capital of Tehran, the network said Sunday.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders is urging nations to not recognize the results of Iran's presidential election, citing censorship and a crackdown on journalists.
CNN's Ram Ramgopal looks at reaction from around the world to the election result in Iran.
A group of 20 to 30 men, carrying clubs and metal pipes, banged on the door of an apartment building in a Tehran neighborhood.
President Obama departed for the Middle East on Tuesday in an effort to repair a damaged U.S. image -- and seemingly reset relations with the Muslim world.
President Obama has given the Muslim community around the world the message we have been waiting for.
U.S. President Barack Obama talks to Al-Arabiya about his desire to improve ties with Muslim world.
President Obama said his administration will offer a hand of friendship to the Muslim world but will hunt down terrorist organizations that kill innocent civilians.
Not since Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's famous footwear pounded into a table at an October 1960 United Nations session have we seen a shoe create such a global political firestorm.
Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims around the world, a time to fast, cleanse the soul and surrender to God. But in the Middle East, there's a new twist to the tradition.
Special soap operas are the craze in the Middle East during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. CNN's Octavia Nasr reports.
A former archbishop of Canterbury called Saturday for the release of five British hostages in Iraq, appealing to their captors as "men of faith."
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown consulted with his Iraqi counterpart Wednesday, following the release of a video showing a British national who was kidnapped in Iraq.
Shiite group posts purported video of British hostage. ITN's Juliet Bremner reports.
The friends and families of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq have issued a message, telling their loved ones they are doing all they can to free them and urging the captors to let the men go.
Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a "credible" way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday.
Prince Bandar says Saudis could have helped prevent al Qaeda attacks if U.S. consulted them in a 'credible' way.
A Lebanese television anchor's comments and laughter regarding the assassination of Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido have caused a furor and resulted in her firing.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has confirmed the arrests of scores of suspects in an anti-terror sweep related to a terror plot involving attacks on senior officials and government oil, military and security installations, according to a statement posted on the state-run Saudi Press Agency Web site.
Shada Hassoon, a charismatic and talented 26-year-old singer, is doing for Iraq what weary politicians in that strife-torn country have so far failed to do: unite the fractious nation.
The U.S. military said it raided an al Qaeda safehouse in Iraq on Monday, killing six terrorists and capturing a seventh.
A gun battle broke out Thursday near a prison in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, and two security guards were killed, the Saudi government said.
Pope Benedict XVI has said he is "deeply sorry" for the reaction to his comments on Islam and said a quote he used from a medieval text about holy wars did not reflect his personal thoughts.
A video showing Lebanese soldiers cordially offering Israeli troops glasses of tea during the military offensive earlier this month has hit Israeli and Hezbollah airwaves.
Saudi security forces have shot and killed six suspected terrorists in the capital Riyadh, the Al Arabiya television network has reported.
The first things two freed Germans asked for after a 99-day hostage ordeal in Iraq were beer and the latest soccer scores.
Two German engineers released after 99 days in captivity in Iraq have returned home looking exhausted but relieved their ordeal was finally behind them.
Two German engineers, nabbed by kidnappers in Iraq more than three months ago, have been freed, a German foreign ministry spokeswoman told CNN.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened to "break" Lebanon if the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri did not support a longer term for President Emile Lahoud, a pro-Syrian politician, Lebanon's prime minister claimed Sunday.
In a dramatic show of solidarity amid fears of escalating violence, Iraq's leaders from virtually all political factions met Saturday to discuss the formation of a national unity government.
Stocks could have some trouble in early trading Friday after a report of an explosion at an Saudi Arabian oil facility and other global uncertainty lifted oil prices.
Three journalists for Al-Arabiya television, including a well-known woman correspondent, were kidnapped and killed while covering sectarian violence in Samarra, police and the Arabic-language channel said.
A videotape broadcast on Monday shows kidnappers threatening to kill two German engineers who were seized last month in Iraq unless Germany cuts ties with Baghdad.
A suicide bomber struck outside a bank Monday in Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 41 others, the city's emergency police said.
Iran's interior minister accused the United States on Saturday of orchestrating the kidnapping of nine Iranian border guards with the help of Sunni militant groups linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda, according to a report.
Arabic-language network Al Arabiya has aired video of what it said were Iranian soldiers recently kidnapped near the Iran-Pakistan border.
France's foreign minister has urged that the French engineer abducted in Iraq be freed "without delay."
The Arabic-language TV network Al-Arabiya aired video Wednesday of a French engineer held captive in Iraq and said his captors threatened to kill him unless France ends its "illegitimate presence" in the country.
Nine people died when clashes broke out between guards and prisoners at an Iraqi military base in northern Baghdad Wednesday morning, U.S. military and Iraqi officials said.
A group of militants released a video Saturday showing a Jordanian hostage and issuing demands for his release.
A stormy Lebanese Cabinet session Monday ended with a call for an international investigation into a string of high-profile attacks on critics of Syrian involvement of Lebanon, spurring five pro-Syrian ministers to suspend participation in the government.
The U.S. Army discovered scores of detainees in poor health at a building run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry during a search for a missing 15-year-old boy, a U.S. general said Monday.
Three U.S. service members have died in separate incidents in Iraq while insurgents targeted Iraqi security forces, authorities said Sunday.
A purported al Qaeda video aired on an Arabic-language news network appears to show the photo identification card and weapon of one of the Navy SEALs killed in late June in eastern Afghanistan, a Navy official said.
Saddam Hussein was called to a hearing where he was questioned about the 1991 repression of a Shiite-led uprising in southern Iraq after the Gulf War, a court official told CNN on Friday.
In video of a legal proceeding that aired Thursday, Saddam Hussein ridiculed Iraq's new government and decried his lack of access to counsel in the war crimes cases against him.
Arabs and Muslims in Britain and across the world expressed outrage at the terrorist attacks in London, with the dominant viewpoint summed up by one person who wrote on a Web site, "Enough ... enough."
Jordanian authorities have re-arrested the spiritual mentor of the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya networks.
A high-ranking member of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia was killed Sunday in a clash between several suspected militants and security forces in the capital of Riyadh, a senior interior ministry official confirmed to CNN.
Lebanon's opposition has called for the resignation of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and a general strike after a car bombing killed a prominent anti-Syrian journalist.
The family of Australian hostage Douglas Wood has bought advertising on an Arabic-language news channel calling for his release by insurgents in Iraq, a family spokesman said Monday.
As the world watched Iraq's historic elections Sunday, Arab media weighed in with a mix of hope, concern, and skepticism. The following is a selection of quotes from Arabic newspapers as well as TV networks:
"What Elections?" reads the headline in Al-Hayat, a widely popular Arab-language newspaper based in London, reflecting the diverse approach to the Iraqi elections in Arab media.
Amid television ads being shown in Iraq promoting candidates in the nation's January 30 election are those of a different kind -- ones promoting a united Iraqi nation.
Two explosions rocked the Saudi Arabian capital Wednesday night, killing two militants and wounding several people, according to the Ministry of Information.
U.S. forces launched renewed attacks against Falluja on Saturday, striking targets from the air and clashing with militants on the southeastern edge of the city.
Iraqi police found the bodies of a man and a woman who are believed to be Westerners south of Baghdad, an Iraqi hospital official said Sunday.
An Islamist terror group posted a video on its Web site Saturday that it claims shows the beheading of a Baghdad contractor.
Fighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence.
Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has shrugged off two death threats delivered via television and the Internet Wednesday, saying he remains determined to bring democracy to Iraq.
Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi shrugged off two death threats delivered via television and the Internet Wednesday, saying he remains determined to bring democracy to Iraq.
Al Qaeda militants kept a pledge to kill their American hostage, posting three chilling photographs Friday on an Islamist Web site to prove they had beheaded Paul Johnson Jr.
In an audiotape broadcast Friday on the Arabic-language television network Al-Arabiya, a man claims to be al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and charges that Americans don't want democracy and freedom in the Arab world.
Rescue helicopters carrying Saudi security forces dropped them off on the roof of a building Sunday at a residential complex in Khobar where hostages -- perhaps about 50 -- have been held by gunmen since Saturday.
Japanese and South Korean media have panned U.S. President George W. Bush's speech on post-occupation Iraq, labeling the address a damage control ploy in the wake of the prisoner abuse scandal.
After his grudging public apology for the behavior of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison, George W. Bush attended a ceremony commemorating the National Day of Prayer.
The Arabic TV network Al-Arabiya aired video Thursday of an American hostage in Iraq who identified himself as Aban Elias of Denver, Colorado.
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Arabic TV he was "appalled" at abuses by U.S. prison guards in Iraq but ordinary Arabs have reacted with widespread anger after he failed to make a personal apology.
Moving to quell the furor over the abuse of prisoners at a U.S.-run prison in Iraq, President Bush told the Arab world on Wednesday that he was "appalled" by what happened and vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
Facing anger at home and abroad, the Bush administration is moving aggressively to signal it is taking seriously the abuse of Iraqi prisoners detailed in an internal military report.
(CNN) -- Graphic pictures showing the apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq have angered Arabs across the world, as well as U.S. and British officials.
The families of three Italians held hostage in Iraq have led a march in Rome after the abductors threatened to kill the captives unless Italians protested against the war.
Italian politicians have condemned a threat by Iraqi militants to kill three hostages unless Italians protest over the presence of their country's troops in Iraq.
A militant group has threatened to kill three Italian hostages unless their countrymen demonstrate against the presence of Italian troops in Iraq, according to a video aired on an Arabic news channel.
A deadline for the handing over of five tribesmen accused of harboring al Qaeda militants in Pakistan has been extended.
Members of a Pakistani tribal militia are sweeping through villages along the Afghan border in a bid to find al Qaeda militants and turn them over to the government.
The CIA thinks a newly released audiotape -- aired by Arabic language TV network Al-Arabiya -- was likely made by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the past few weeks.
Arabic language TV network Al-Arabiya has aired what it says is an audio tape from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in which he threatens revenge on America, but offers a truce to European states.
European politicians have ruled out negotiating with Osama bin Laden after a tape the CIA says is likely to be that of the al Qaeda leader offered a truce to European nations if they pull troops out of Islamic countries.
Citing reports by Arabic-language television networks they considered erroneous, U.S. military representatives urged Tuesday that reporting from some news organizations not be taken at face value.
Al Arabiya, the Dubai-based Arabic-language news network, described the killing of two employees by U.S. troops March 18 in Baghdad as an "assassination" Tuesday.
Protests in Baghdad marked the anniversary Friday of the beginning of the war in Iraq, as President Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell took the occasion to praise the country's progress toward democracy.
From the Wolf Blitzer Reports staff in Atlanta:
Tapes attributed to Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have warned that more terror attacks are coming and criticized France's push to ban Islamic head scarves in schools.
A tape recording attributed to Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, criticized France's decision to ban Islamic headscarves in schools, and described it as "part of the West's campaign of hatred against Islam."
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