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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer, Connie Foong Staff writer Abstract: U.S. schools have increasingly dropped test requirements for college applicants. The U.K. offers an example of how that debate has [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson As the long anticipated battle for Mosul gets under way, Iraq faces two critical tests: whether it can deliver a major blow to the Islamic State's 'caliphate' [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson On the fringes of Iran's shriveled salt lake, once among the world's largest, are two competing visions of the future. One is a desiccated apocalypse, where farmers [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The hotline rings 50 times a day in this remote outpost of eastern Ukraine's breakaway rebel republics. The angry queries pour forth: When will payments or salaries [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson A Kurdish flag has replaced the Iraqi flag flying over the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk, in a clear symbol of how Iraq's Kurds have benefited from [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The lights in the Tehran cinema go down, and from the wail of the first air-raid siren to the climactic battles scenes, Iran's latest war movie transports [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson A prominent green arrow painted on the ground once led the way to one of Iran's largest family planning clinics so that men seeking free vasectomies could [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran has unveiled its own copy of an American stealth drone it captured in late 2011, claiming to have cracked the 'secrets' of the bat-wing craft and [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran's sales pitch for the Geneva nuclear deal got a lively reception on Tuesday at a packed Tehran University auditorium, where the country's lead negotiator defended the [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson America's nuclear negotiators with Iran got it all wrong, according to a growing chorus of critics arguing that over-reliance on pressure and sanctions may be jeopardizing a [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington this week will shape the future of Afghanistan, as he and Obama determine the number and role - if any [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Looming unquestionably over Turkey's parliamentary elections today is the charismatic man who is all but certain to win a third term in power: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Military forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi shelled antigovernment rebels Wednesday, deepening the confrontation over a critical front line while Mr. Qaddafi vowed that victory would [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran stepped up claims on Tuesday that it had dismantled an Israeli spy ring that assassinated a nuclear physicist a year ago, and bolstered its case with [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran has invited diplomats to visit its nuclear facilities, but left America and key European nations off the guest list ahead of the next round of nuclear [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson As a loyal follower of Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the young head of the National Youth Organization had every reason to expect his string of high-profile [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today decried the 'brutal and barbaric ... Zionist regime,' as if trying to catch up with Turkey's fierce criticism of Israel's raid on [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a 40-year-old relic of the cold war. As diplomats and arms control wonks review the treaty during a May 3-28 conference [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson At the start of three days of war games in the Persian Gulf, Iran is trumpeting the launch of a new weapon: an 'ultra-fast' watercraft. Iranian television [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson, Alice Fordham As Iraq's politicians jockey for power to form a new government, Iraqis on the streets hope that their vote in the March 7 elections will [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson An Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared while on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia last year is reported to have defected to the United States and been [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran is closely watching the unfolding crisis between Israel and the United States over Israeli settlements - and Jerusalem clashes with Palestinians that injured more than 100 [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Tehran stepped up its diplomatic push to avoid a new set of sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, calling on China not to buckle under pressure from a [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The three most powerful men in Turkey met on Thursday in a bid to defuse political tensions, as the Islamic-leaning government increased to 20 the number of [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Opposition and pro-government Iranians are preparing to take to the streets of Iran on Thursday to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in a political [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer Prominent Islamist clerics in Yemen warned on Thursday that they would lead a jihad against any foreign forces that occupied their impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer Yemen is intensifying its fight against Al Qaeda, as its forces killed a cell leader in a firefight Tuesday night and pursued two dozen other [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer With a curved dagger in his belt and a beard dyed flame red, Yemenâos most influential cleric on Monday laid down limits on growing counterterrorism [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may carry the title of 'supreme' leader in Iran, but in the aftermath of [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- Iran offered on Wednesday to take part in a 'collective approach' to resolving an escalating Shiite rebellion [...]

Byline: Nicholas Blanford and Scott Peterson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Why are these elections important? Iran: On June 12, incumbent [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- Chances of any early start of US-Iran dialogue dimmed further Thursday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad singled out his [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- The price has been high of massive and sometimes violent Iranian reaction to the official landslide reelection [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- Uncertainty rose Monday among Iran's opposition supporters after violent clashes with the government's police and 'disciplinary forces' [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- Iran's supreme religious leader threw his weight behind the disputed landslide victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Tehran, Iran -- Days and nights of irreverent and raucous street party demonstrations calmed Thursday, as Iranians prepared to vote [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Tehran, Iran -- She did not vote in Iran's last election. Nor in the election before that. But the young [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Birjand, Iran -- Etched into the desert at the base of dun-colored crags, Birjand was once a stronghold of Iranian [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Tehran, Iran -- During 90 minutes of bruising debate, Iran's top two presidential candidates on Wednesday sought to denigrate each [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- As Iranians celebrated the Persian New Year recently, they witnessed the start of indirect talks between Iran [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Tehran, Iran; and Istanbul, Turkey -- The black and red graffiti painted outside the apartment and offices of Nobel Peace [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Dulaim, Iraq -- Dulaim is an Iraqi village transformed. Where masked gunmen from Al Qaeda in Iraq once imposed their [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Tehran; and Istanbul, Turkey -- On a scorching day in Tehran the power goes out, trapping a maid in a [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Iran's nuclear intentions are under increasing scrutiny as diplomats and technical experts of the United Nation's atomic [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson - Staff writer and Rob Crilly- Correspondent Istanbul, Turkey; and Nairobi, Kenya -- The US hopes its killing of a top Somali militant Thursday will set back [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Istanbul, Turkey -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is taking Iran's outreach strategy to South Asia this week, with high-profile visits to [...]