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An Iranian opposition leader has been jailed for six years for his role in the unrest following June's disputed presidential election, reports say.

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The systematic and brutal targeting of demonstrators and government critics by security forces shows that the regime's crackdown is nothing but an attempt to silence voices of dissent

A shadowy figure murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad. It sounds like the plot of a John Le Carré spy novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Iran claimed that it would build 10 new enrichment sites within one year, the state media reported Monday.

Iran's president on Sunday ordered his atomic agency to significantly enrich the country's stockpile of uranium, angering Western nations who want to the Islamic republic to halt its nuclear program.

Iran has arrested seven people linked to a U.S.-funded Farsi-language radio station for allegedly fomenting unrest, and accused some of the suspects of working for American spy agencies, Iranian state media reported Sunday.

A suicide bomber killed at least eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber killed at least eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in Afghanistan.

Four thousand British troops are preparing to take part in the largest military offensive against the Taliban since the Afghanistan invasion in 2001.

According to a study done by the University of Saana in Yemen, over half of Yemeni brides are under fifteen years old. Many are no more than eleven or twelve years old.

Germany supports the creation of a European army in the long term so that the EU can be a "global player," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

A heroic military dog is to be honoured with the animal version of the Victoria Cross.

Western powers respond with scepticism to Iran's claim that a deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel could be close.

President Obama is scheduled to attend a Friday memorial service for seven CIA officers and contractors killed in Afghanistan in December.

It's been 31 years since the Iranian revolution, and Iranians are on the streets once again.

Two suicide bombers have killed at least eight people and injured 25 in the outskirts of Karbala in Iraq, reports from Iraqi police say.

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