IRBIL, Iraq — Iraq’s prime minister on Saturday announced plans for a $17 billion regional transportation project intended to facilitate the flow of goods from Asia to Europe.

TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Asian stocks rallied and the dollar jumped to a two-week high against the yen Monday after U.S. forces seized key buildings in central Baghdad.

The geopolitical impact of the Arab state on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

Iraq claimed their first victory over Japan in 42 years when they won their Asian Cup Group D encounter 2-1 on Friday to qualify for the knockout stage thanks to a first-half double from Aymen ...

SINGAPORE/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's proposal to change the way it prices crude oil in Asia faces resistance from refiners who fear that longer lead times between pricing and deliveries will expose ...

Jordan advanced to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup with victory over Iraq on Monday, who had striker Aymen Hussein sent off after a goal celebration. Hussein, 27, had given Iraq a 2-1 lead in ...

Iraq’s midfielder Waleed Salim (L) fights for the ball with Japan’s forward Hiroshi Kiyotake (R) during their 2014 FIFA World Cup Japan Asian football qualifier in Saitama on September 11, 2012. Japan ...

HONG KONG -- While airlines around the world battled insolvency and fretted over the war in Iraq, Asian-based carriers rode out the industry's latest downturn a bit more smoothly. Then along came ...

Should Asia Quit Iraq?The new South Korean administration will have to balance anti-American public sentiment with a harsher geopolitical reality: Seoul needs U.S. troops on its soil to protect ...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrives in South Korea as a part of a six-day Asian tour. So far, Rumsfeld meets with disappointment as Japan decides to delay deployment of troops to Iraq and ...

Though Japan and South Korea this week reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S. coalition in Iraq, several other Asia nations are wavering -- among them Thailand and the Philippines. On Thursday ...