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The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-U.S. tensions.
In a story about the humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa, The Associated Press erroneously reported that refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya were still in the process of opening. The camps opened between June and November of last year.
The Obama administration has condemned Iran for enriching uranium to a level that can be upgraded quicker for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation's main stockpile.
A U.S. official says Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard the captured CIA stealth drone because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.
The Air Force will award a Silver Star posthumously to Francis Gary Powers, the pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union in a defining moment of the Cold War.
The loss to Iran of the CIA's surveillance drone bristling with advanced spy technology is more than a propaganda coup and intelligence windfall for the Tehran government. The plane's capture has peeled back another layer of secrecy from expanding U.S. operations against Iran's nuclear and military programs.
National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said Tuesday that Iran has been weakened under the Obama administration, rebutting Republicans and other critics who have called the White House policy on Iran ineffective.
Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to the U.S. said Tuesday there was "ample and heinous" evidence that Iran was behind an alleged plot to kill the current Saudi envoy to Washington.
Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to the U.S. says it's inevitable that Syria's president will step down in the face of growing popular opposition.
An explosion at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot west of Tehran Saturday killed at least 17 soldiers, including a senior commander of the powerful military force, Iranian officials said.
An Iranian exile group claimed Saturday that a blast near Tehran hit a missile base run by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, disputing the Iranian government's account that it occurred at an ammunition depot.
President Barack Obama is praising the Arab League for suspending Syria's membership, highlighting what he called the group's leadership in seeking to end attacks on peaceful protesters.
An Iranian exile group claims that a blast at a military installation near Tehran has resulted from the explosion of rockets at a base for the missile forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Amir Sairafi was an Iranian trader doing business in Dubai, the free-wheeling Middle East commerce hub. When he flew to Germany to take his oral exams for his master's degree, he ran into the U.S. crackdown on illicit trade with Iran.
Moammar Gadhafi now joins the ranks of other powerful foreign leaders, many of them dictators or autocrats, who have battled the United States only to come to a bad end.
Former Secretary of State George Shultz said Saturday he thinks the world has a second shot at global nuclear disarmament, 25 years after he stood by at a summit where the U.S. and the former Soviet Union came close to an agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons.
An arms control group says 100 international leaders will call on the world's nuclear-armed nations to begin talks aimed at the elimination of nuclear weapons.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday accused China of waging an unprecedented campaign of cyber espionage aimed at stealing some of the most important U.S. industrial secrets.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that he should not have stayed silent after the audience at a GOP debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq.
U.S. utilities and industries face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official said during the government's first media tour of secretive defense labs intended to protect the nation's power grid, water systems and other vulnerable infrastructure.
The White House says the Obama administration's "reset" of relations with Russia will continue if Vladimir Putin returns to the presidency.
Iran's star-crossed nuclear and energy programs have suffered a rash of setbacks, mishaps and catastrophes in the past two years.
A Russian engineer who worked on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant during the final stages of construction says inexperienced workers, poor oversight and layers of bureaucracy contributed to a rash of equipment failures that delayed the reactor's startup for almost a year.
The U.S. is trying to revive a program to prevent Libyan chemical, biological and nuclear scientists from working for terror groups or hostile nations, a State Department official said Thursday.
A House Republican says the Obama administration plans talks with Saudi Arabia about potential civil nuclear power deals.
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