TUNIS- An upsurge in violence in Tunisia involving Islamist radicals has been engineered by supporters of deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the country's religious affairs minister said on...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Libya's National Transitional Council is set to hand over power on Wednesday to an assembly elected last month in a symbolic move marking the first peaceful transition of power...

CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- Egypt's army vowed Monday to "avenge" the killing of 16 troops by gunmen near the Israeli border and President Mohamed Morsi won US backing as he ordered his security forces to...

NEAR ALEPPO, Syria, Iskandar Kat- Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel positions in second city Aleppo on Sunday ahead of a threatened ground assault by more than 20,000 troops assembled around the...

ALEPPO, Syria, Iskandar Kat- With hardened expressions, three men watched in silence as Syria's rebels danced to celebrate the "liberation" of Shaar district in Aleppo, a sign of the embattled city's...

Policeman Hussein Zabani was killed while another, Saad al-Shummari, was wounded and hospitalised, he said. "Security forces hunted down the armed rioters who were on motorbikes and exchanged fire...

UNITED NATIONS, Tim Witcher- The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday slamming the Security Council's failure to act on the Syria conflict, which UN leader Ban Ki-moon said...

NEAR ALEPPO, Syria, Iskandar Kat- Former UN chief Kofi Annan said on Thursday he was quitting as international envoy for Syria, complaining that his April peace plan had not received the support it...

NEAR ALEPPO, Syria, Iskandar Kat- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that the army was fighting for the nation's future as UN officials said the regime was using fighter jets against...