It said it would continue in that role until it hands over power, as it has promised it would to an elected president by the end of June. A runoff between the two frontrunners from the first round of...
DAMASCUS- Russia insisted Wednesday that new action against its ally Syria would be premature even as the UN peacekeeping chief told of the discovery of 13 bodies, apparently killed execution-style....
JERUSALEM- The Palestinian group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has an armed force to rival that of Israel's Lebanese foe Hezbollah, the head of the Shin Bet security service said on Wednesday....
WASHINGTON, Andrew Gully- Western powers ordered Tuesday the expulsion of Syrian diplomats as they blamed the Houla massacre squarely on President Bashar al-Assad's regime and warned him that time...
DOHA- The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Rached Ghannouchi, said on Tuesday that the Arab Spring provided an opportunity to reconcile Arabic public opinion with the West. He spoke at the...
CAIRO, Mona Salem and Ines Bel Aiba- Egypt's Islamist presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi sought on Tuesday to reassure Coptic Christians and women, who fear a conservative Islamist in power could...
DAMASCUS- UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan expressed "horror" at the Houla massacre of more than 100 people as he began a visit to Syria on Monday aimed at salvaging his battered peace plan. Annan called the...
UNITED NATIONS- Text of statement agreed on Sunday by the UN Security Council on the Houla massacre in Syria: "The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest possible terms the...
CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egypt's presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates Sunday in a bid to appease a polarised nation that will choose between an Islamist and a...
"Our whole effort there is aimed at going after those terrorists who threaten to attack our country," he said. "We've been successful. We've gone after a number of key targets there. We'll continue...
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