If Northern Ireland has any lesson for Gaza, it is that finally both sides have to choose a political rather than a military solution Comments I'm no expert in Middle East studies.

In a SPIEGEL interview, al-Qaida expert and Obama adviser Bruce Riedel discusses the fate of the remaining Guantanamo prisoners, how dangerous they really are, what Europe could do to help.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees allegedly abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Britain's former chief legal adviser says the UK should be prepared to take in Guantanamo Bay detainees if it helps the United States shut the prison camp down.

BBC Monitoring Middle East Text of report in English by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on 4 January [Press release: "Behind the Headlines: Israel Expands Operation Cast Lead"] The upgrading of ...

Gunmen opened fire on riot police in Athens on Monday, seriously wounding an officer a month after police fatally shot a teenager, sparking Greece's worst riots in decades.