WATERTOWN, S.D. -- Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden and blaming its Iraq war policy for strengthening and emboldening Iran.

The task ahead of you is a great and difficult one," Qatari Amir Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani told government and opposition leaders who flew to Doha a day after Arab mediators reached a deal to end Lebanon's worst

Meanwhile, oil shot to a record high near $128 a barrel after Goldman Sachs forecast a continued spike in prices through the end of the year. The US has decided to suspend shipments to its strategic oil reserve for the

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the 10-day amnesty for surrendering heavy and medium weaponry after he arrived in Mosul to launch the military crackdown codenamed "Mother of Two Springs". He said the crackdown was going well. "The process will achieve

The Al Qaeda leader, who has placed growing emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said it was at the heart of the Muslim battle with the West and an inspiration to the 19 bombers who carried out the attacks on US

By Ghassan Karam, Special to Ya Libnan It was seventy five years ago that Khalil Gibran's "The Garden of the Prophet" was published posthumously.

Beirut - For three years, Sunni Muslims have dominated Lebanon's government. Now they are bitter and fearful after Hezbollah's seizure of parts of Beirut in street gunbattles — an ominous sign of how the country's latest political crisis has sharply

Doha- Lebanon's feuding political leaders arrived in Doha for Arab-Sponsored talks aimed at ending the ongoing crisis that has driven the nation to the brinks of civil war.

Doha- Lebanon's rival political leaders arrived in Doha for dialogue talks aiming at ending the political crisis that has divided the. The talks are being sponsored by the Arab league

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden slammed Western leaders for taking part in Israel's 60th anniversary of its creation overtop Palestinian land and vowed that Muslims would fight and not give up "one inch of Palestine," in an audio message Friday.

Foreign rescue teams arrived in China's quake-devastated southwest on Friday, laden with specialist equipment to aid the desperate search among the rubble of shattered buildings. A Japanese team began work in Sichuan Province, the first time the Chinese government has