Four Seasons

US bows to Iraqi demands over troop withdrawal

According to officials, US forces must leave in three years and face prosecution in an Iraqi court if they break the law

Warring monks threaten holiest Christian site

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre could be destroyed for lack of repairs as infighting between Christian sects prevents work

Earliest case of TB found in Neolithic skeleton

Israeli find shows infection 3,000 years older than thought and disproves notion that human TB emerged after bovine TB

Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel

Omer Goldman, daughter of a former Mossad chief, tells why she prefers jail to the military draft

Shot in the back and left in the Cairo dust

December 18, 1977: a Sunday Times team investigates the slaying of the paper’s star foreign reporter

Middle East talks head to Oxford

Israel offered a comprehensive peace treaty with 22 Arab countries in return for withdrawal from the territories it occupied after the 1967 war

Sponsor of world peace concert on trial

World Orchestra for Peace is 'generously supported' by Israeili Arcadi Gaydamak, one of 40 defendants in a Paris arms case

Yom Kippur riots erupt in Israeli city

Youths attack Arab man in ancient port city of Acre, northern Israel, in act described by police as a provocation

Dial M for Mufti to quiz first Islamic helpline

A call centre for those seeking a fatwa is attracting 3,700 calls a day from Muslims around the world, its organisers claim

Iraq must rid itself of US troops, Iran says

Iran is trying to derail an agreement that would allow US and British troops to stay in Iraq after their mandate expires

Lebanon's drug barons reap a bumper harvest

The Bekaa Valley’s lawless plains are proving to be fertile ground for cannabis farmers ignored by a Government in crisis

Iran row looms over release of siege terrorist

Fowzi Badavi Nejad to be freed within days and allowed to stay in UK amid fears that his release will trigger row with Iran

Iranian embassy siege terrorist to be freed

Fowzi Badavi Nejad allowed to stay in the UK despite Iran wanting his return over murder of two hostages during the siege

Iran causes panic with US plane accusation

News agency in Tehran claims American aircraft was forced to land after breaching airspace - but the rumour was untrue

US warplane 'forced to land in Iran'

Confusion today surrounded an Iranian claim that a US warplane had violated its territory and had been forced to land