BAGHDAD, July 25 (UPI) -- Targeted killings and suicide bombings in Iraq may signal the end of al-Qaida, but experts caution political divisions in Baghdad could hamper its defeat.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Fighting in Iraq's oil capital Basra isn't the first bloodshed between varying political and armed groups but may be the decisive battle for control over the oil sector, local government and the fate of the province.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Military cooperation between the countries of the Arabian Peninsula goes back more than a quarter century, but a potential $20 billion U.S. arms sale promises to bring them even greater coordination against a possible Iranian missile threat.

The unprecedented cooperation being extended by the government of Yemen to the United States in its war on terror is threatening a political crisis in the conservative Arab and Islamic country, according to analysts and U.S. officials.