'Waiting for Armageddon'

By turns frightening, fascinating and eye-opening, the documentary "Waiting for Armageddon" offers much to rouse followers of various...

Israeli conservatives attack U.S.-based philanthropy as unpatriotic

A U.S.-based philanthropy that funds human rights groups in Israel is under fire amid accusations that its recipients provided the bulk of...

Egypt's Copts fearful amid increasing tensions

Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives...

Robert Gates says Iran's response to nuclear proposal is disappointing

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a conservative official in Tehran found something they could agree on Saturday, as each dismissed...

Exploring Iran via its cinema

For the past two decades, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has been presenting the preeminent in Iranian art-house cinema -- highly...

An Iraqi woman's taste of freedom turns sour

In jail, Sarah had imagined herself sitting on Oprah's stage. The talk show host would listen sympathetically to the Iraqi widow's story....

Ruling Yemen gets even more complicated

President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once described ruling Yemen as dancing on the heads of snakes, has stayed in power for three decades...

Israel satire show sees no end of material

The camera zooms in on the face of an actor portraying a captive Israeli soldier as he reads a prepared statement.

Banned Iraq candidates can run in election

Hundreds of candidates accused of having ties to the outlawed Baath Party will be allowed to participate in Iraq's upcoming election after a...

Iran announces launch of powerful rocket carrying animals into space

Iran announced that it fired a powerful rocket loaded with a rat and several other live animals into space Wednesday, a week before a...

Ethiopian air crash shines light on lives of migrant workers

The woman from the small Ethiopian village of Nazareth was never content to toil in the shadows as a maid or nanny, one of the thousands...

Concerns grow over Al Qaeda's group in Yemen

Al Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen has emerged as the "foremost concern" for U.S. spy agencies since the group was tied to two attacks in the...

On the outskirts of teeming Cairo, a refuge

Past the wild dogs and poor boys selling charred corn and party hats, the road turns to dirt and stone and dips toward an ancient riverbed...

54 killed as suicide bomber targets Shiite pilgrims in Iraq

A female suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives among a crowd of Shiite Muslim pilgrims Monday in northeast Baghdad, killing...