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Palestinians flood through Egypt border

Tens of thousands of Palestinians jammed the Egypt-Gaza border region Thursday, picking up everything from camels to cigarettes in Egypt, a day after overrunning the border wall.

Suicide bomber kills Iraqi police chief

A suicide bomber killed Nineveh province's director of police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, the US military said.

Iraq sends troops against militants in north

Iraq's prime minister said Friday his country's troops are on their way to the northern city of Mosul for a "decisive" confrontation with militants there.

'Dozens hurt' in Gaza border clashes

Egypt's government has invited leaders of Gaza's main political groups to hold talks Friday, after a day when Egyptian forces clashed with Palestinians moving through a breached border wall between Gaza and Egypt.

Protesters killed near Beirut

At least four Lebanese opposition protesters were killed Sunday in the southern suburbs of Beirut while protesting the government's electricity rationing, according to Lebanese army sources.

Agent: Saddam surprised U.S. invaded

Saddam Hussein let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction to intimidate Iran and prevent the country from attacking Iraq, according to an FBI agent who interviewed the dictator after his 2003 capture.

Forces mass for assault on al Qaeda

Knife-wielding home invaders attacked a former official in Saddam Hussein's government Saturday night, killing him, his wife, son and daughter, an Interior Ministry official said.

Bodies, heads found in northern Iraq

Violence gripped northern Iraq on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed at least one person in Mosul and authorities found nine bodies and an additional 10 decapitated heads in Diyala province.

Dubai crippled by Internet collapse

Life came to a standstill in Dubai, home of the renowned "Media City" and modern "electronic government," after an extensive Internet failure affected much of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.

Internet cable to be fixed 'within week'

Repair ships are going to the site of two undersea cables which were damaged this week, snarling Internet and phone traffic across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cables' owner said Friday.