Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN)—U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to understand the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the delegation of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the...

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Tehran, Iran (AHN)—In the first signal of thawing tensions between the two nations, Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that he approves of talks between U.S. and Iranian officials on Iraq, but warns that the United States must not try to...

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - U.S. government translations of audiotapes shows an exasperated Saddam Hussein and top aides searching for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world that they had given up banned weapons. In one transcript from 1996, Saddam wondered...

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer New York, New York (AHN)—Investigators with the Women and Infants Transmission Study Group report that early diagnosis of an AIDS-defining illness in children, who acquired HIV infection from their mothers, is associated with impaired cognitive development....

AP - Russia had a military intelligence unit operating in Iraq up through the 2003 U.S. invasion and fall of Baghdad, a Russian analyst said Friday. A Pentagon report said Russia provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on U.S. military movements and plans.