The US secretary of state says the Middle East peace process is "moving in the right direction" after talks.

Iraqis return to the streets of Basra and Baghdad, after a curfew is lifted and militiamen follow orders to withdraw.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, seized by Palestinian militants in 2006, is alive, says Hamas' leader in exile.

Israel and the Palestinians agree to a series of "concrete steps" to ease lives in the West Bank, the US says.

The Arab League summit in Damascus ends with calls to end Lebanon's crisis, but no specific proposals.

Renewed violence in Iraq has devolved into an intra-Shiite blood feud.

In a forthcoming memoir about Iraq, a NEWSWEEK correspondent relives a relationship that blossomed, and ended tragically, in Baghdad.

Turkey uses shelling and air raids to target rebel positions in Iraq, killing at least 15, the Turkish military says.

The Pentagon replaces a commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, who quit early amid controversy.

The US military drops charges against a marine accused of involvement in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

Oil prices fall after it emerges that an attack on an Iraqi export pipeline was not as serious as earlier thought.

A UN inquiry says a "network of individuals" was behind the 2005 killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.