Mubarak's health has deteriorated since his incarceration on June 2, and he was defibrillated twice to revive his heart on Monday, a prison hospital source said. "His condition is very critical,"...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum and Dominique Soguel- Libya has put four International Criminal Court (ICC) envoys in "preventive" detention in prison for 45 days while investigating an alleged threat to...

Determined to preserve one of its principal state-building achievements -- applying the rule of law -- the Palestinian Authority has deployed hundreds of security personnel to reinforce the city's...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon- Gunmen abducted on Sunday four Syrian Alawites and a Shiite man along the border with Syria after a Sunni Lebanese was kidnapped in the same region, a security official and...

ISTANBUL, Nicolas Cheviron- The exiled Syrian National Council was meeting in Turkey on Saturday to pick a new leader to succeed Burhan Ghalioun who quit last month to prevent a possible split in the...

CAIRO- Egyptian prosecutors asked parliament on Saturday for permission to investigate an Islamist MP police say was caught performing an "indecent" act with a woman in public, official media...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Thousands of people demonstrated in Egypt on Friday to demand Hosni Mubarak's last premier Ahmed Shafiq be banned from a run-off presidential election, even as Shafiq pledged...

TUNIS- Tunisia's decision to extradite Libya's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi back to his home country is definitive, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali told AFP on Friday. "The decision to...

CAIRO- The health of Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has deteriorated since his transfer to prison after he was sentenced to life in jail over the killing of protesters, the official news agency...