BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he will overhaul Iraq's security strategy as a two-day wave of violence killed 89 people including 24 police,...

DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people....

TUNIS, Antoine Lambroschini- The Tunisian government on Friday banned hardline Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia from holding its annual congress at the weekend, saying it posed a threat to public order...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Thursday Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organize peace...

BEIRUT- A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on Tuesday. But the...

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday there was "strong evidence" the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel forces. "This fight is...

DAMASCUS- Syria's main opposition National Coalition said on Wednesday any political settlement to the country's two-year-old civil war must start with President Bashar al-Assad's ouster, implicitly...

KASSERINE, Tunisia- Two Tunisian soldiers were wounded Monday when a device exploded in the Mount Chaambi border region during the ongoing hunt for a jihadist group who have mined the area, the...

ALGIERS- The Polisario Front on Friday slammed Morocco's "systematic repression" of separatist protesters in the disputed Western Sahara and urged the UN to apply a new resolution calling for greater...