PARIS- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will meet the head of the opposition Syrian National Council on Friday before international talks in Geneva on Syria's conflict, the ministry said. It...

NICOSIA, Jean-Louis Doublet- Cyprus, which on July 1 will assume the rotating presidency of the European Union, is ready with its European partners to evacuate third party nationals from Syria, the...

DAMASCUS- An attack on a pro-government television station near Damascus killed seven staff on Wednesday, as peace envoy Kofi Annan confirmed a meeting on Syria would be held on the weekend. Annan...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi pushed ahead on Wednesday with selecting a government, after a court delivered a blow to the ruling military by suspending its powers to...

DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday said his country was in a state of war and ordered his new cabinet to crush the anti-regime uprising as Turkey vowed to retaliate the downing of...

CAIRO, Mona Salem- Egypt's administrative court suspended on Tuesday a justice ministry decision to allow the ruling military powers to arrest civilians, a judicial source said. The court took the...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi began selecting a new government on Monday as his supporters pursued a sit-in to pressure the ruling military to...

TUNIS, Cecile Feuillatre- Tunisia's post-revolution political alliance faced its deepest crisis yet Monday after the Islamist prime minister ignored the president's opposition to the extradition of a...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush and Jailan Zayan- Egypt's Mohamed Morsi, the first Islamist to be elected president of the Arab world's most populous nation, said Sunday he will be a leader "for all...