WASHINGTON- The United States warned Thursday that the Syrian regime may be preparing to carry out a massacre in the city of Aleppo, but stuck by its position that there would be no US military...
CAIRO- Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi and Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, on Thursday examined easing restrictions on residents of the Palestinian enclave, Morsi's spokesman said....
Dozens of people, angry over their living conditions, converged on the government building in Sidi Bouzid and set fire to a tyre, which they threw inside. Police responded with warning shots and tear...
B'Hiri told Shems private radio station that among those pardoned are minors, schoolchildren and university students. On Wednesday, Tunisia celebrated the 55th anniversary of the proclamation of the...
BAGHDAD- The trial of Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, accused of running death squads, was postponed Tuesday after defence requests to call President Jalal Talabani to testify were...
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...
DAMASCUS- Feared forces led by President Bashar al-Assad's brother used helicopter gunships Sunday in a new assault on rebels in Damascus, activists said, as clashes also raged in Syria's second city...
In the deadliest attack, two car bombs minutes apart at the main market in the town of Mahmudiyah killed at least 10 people and wounded 36, two medical officials said. The first bomb exploded at...
BAGHDAD- Iraq's government said on Friday it was unable to provide help for Syrian refugees looking to escape their country's ongoing strife because of the poor security situation within Iraq. "Our...
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,...