JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- White House hopeful Mitt Romney Sunday held top-level talks in Israel over Iran's nuclear ambitions but quickly drew fire from the Palestinians for endorsing Jerusalem as...

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Dozens of Libya's poor are celebrating the country's first free Ramadan since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi in the shattered remains of the late dictator's infamous Bab...

ANKARA- Syria is capable of using chemical weapons, a leading opposition leader warned on Monday after President Bashar al-Assad's regime said it could do so against "external aggression." Abdel...

BRUSSELS- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday commended Libya's elections as a symbol of the country's "peaceful and dignified" march towards democracy. The July 7 poll,...

PARIS- President Moncef Marzouki said Wednesday that Tunisia had not fallen into Islamist hands and was pursuing democracy in the wake of its popular uprising, as he addressed France's National...

BEIRUT- Tunisia's former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, toppled by a popular revolt in 2011, is ready to hand over his Swiss-held financial "assets" to the Tunisian state, his Lebanese lawyer...

AL KARM, Tunisia, Antoine Lambroschini and Kaouther Larbi- The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda called on Thursday for national consensus at the launch of its first congress at home in...

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Moamer Kadhafi's last premier, Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who was controversially extradited from Tunisia to Libya to face justice, said on Tuesday that he was innocent. "I am...

On the same day, he hosted Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on his second official visit this year since his expulsion in 1999. "The turning point in Jordan's official position towards the Islamists...