Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, withdrew from consideration for a top intelligence post following a successful campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists....

The court threw out much of the evidence in a case against American intelligence operatives, ruling that prosecutors had violated state secrecy....

Supply routes for the war in Afghanistan could bypass Russia and Pakistan, and could go through Iran....

Libyan officials insist that Washington has done too little to reward the country for giving up its nuclear and chemical weapons programs in late 2003....

The director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, called the military dispute the worst since a midair collision in 2001 that forced a U.S. surveillance plane to land on Hainan Island....

President Evo Morales expelled an American diplomat on Monday, accusing him of conspiring with opposition groups....

Powerful interests in the United States are expected to oppose European and Japanese pressure for international financial regulation....

Hamas and Hezbollah are now seen throughout the Arab world as legitimate resistance movements without whose involvement regional peace is impossible....

France has always contributed troops and money, but its decision to rejoin the alliance as a full partner carries enormous political and psychological weight, NATO officials say....

The secretary of state has been a loose, unscripted politician in Asia but a controlled diplomat in the Middle East....