ALEPPO, Syria, Sara Hussein- The number of refugees fleeing civil war in Syria has surged to more than 200,000, the UN said on Friday, as fighter jets and tanks reportedly unleashed deadly new raids...

CAIRO- Hundreds of protesters rallied on Friday in Cairo against President Mohamed Morsi, a much smaller turnout than hoped for by activists bent on challenging the country's first Islamist...

CAIRO, Dominique Soguel- Egyptian newspaper editor Islam Afifi was freed after a few hours in custody on Thursday, a security official said, following a presidential decree scrapping preventive...

SFAX, Tunisia- Around 60 demonstrators on Thursday attacked a police station in the central Sfax region following a conflict with representatives of the ruling Islamist party Ennahda, police said....

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt's interior ministry on Wednesday warned organisers planning a campaign of protests against President Mohamed Morsi on August 24 that it would respond "decisively" to any...

RABAT- Moroccan riot police forcefully dispersed a protest outside parliament Wednesday, where activists had gathered to call for the abolition of a ceremony of loyalty to the king, AFP journalists...

ALEPPO, Syria, Jean-Marc Mojon- A Syrian minister held out the prospect Tuesday that embattled President Bashar al-Assad could leave power as part of a negotiated settlement to the increasingly...

WASHINGTON- The United States supports Egypt's recent military deployments to the Sinai Peninsula but said on Tuesday that Cairo must coordinate such action with Israel and observe the 1979 peace...

BEIRUT, Jad Yateem- They share a single goal: to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. But the myriad rebel groups that have sprung up are riven by infighting about funding, weapons and even...