CAIRO (AP) — A daughter of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for eight years, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported Wednesday. ...more

December 23, 2009

Iran is ready to exchange the bulk of its stockpile of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods - as proposed by the U.N. - but according to its own mechanisms and timetable, the foreign minister said Saturday. ...more

December 12, 2009

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which began with a stop in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...more

November 9, 2009

President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to Russia's president last month suggesting he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, U.S. officials said Monday. ...more

March 3, 2009

Iran invited the U.S. women's badminton team to compete in a tournament then denied its players visas Wednesday, saying there was no time to process their visa applicatio ...more

February 4, 2009

Hundreds of Iranian students bused in for the occasion burned U.S. and Israeli flags and chanted slogans Monday in front of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, commemorating the 29th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis. In 1979, militant Iranian students who believed the embassy was a center of plots against the Persian country held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The United States severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. ...more

November 4, 2008

With international efforts to increase sanctions against Iran at a standstill, many Israelis think their nation alone stands in the way of Tehran eventually building nuclear weapons. ...more

November 4, 2008

Russia, Iran and Qatar made the first serious moves Tuesday toward forming an OPEC-style cartel on natural gas, raising concerns that Moscow could boost its influence over energy markets spanning from Europe to South Asia. ...more

October 22, 2008

Germany's foreign minister urged Iran to stop playing for time and deliver a "clear answer" to initiatives offered by six world powers in the standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions in an interview released Saturday. ...more

August 3, 2008

Iran rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium on Saturday, prompting President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to jointly warn Tehran against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb. ...more

June 15, 2008