UNITED NATIONS- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Monday's suicide bombing in Yemen that killed almost 100 soldiers, saying those behind the attack must be brought to justice. "The...

DAMASCUS- A rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a team of UN observers in a Damascus suburb Sunday, the military said, as dozens of people were killed in violence while clashes raged between...

"But again NATO has no intention to intervene in Syria." NATO governments have come under criticism for backing an air war in Libya but ruling out military intervention in Syria, where opposition...

CAIRO- The powerful Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Mursi warned Sunday against any attempt to tamper with Egypt's presidential poll this week as thousands of supporters rallied across the...

DUBAI- Thousands of Sunnis staged a rally in Manama on Saturday in support of a controversial proposal to unite Bahrain with neighbouring Saudi Arabia, witnesses said. "Yes to unity," read the...

CAIRO- Human Rights Watch accused Egypt's military on Saturday of beating and torturing protesters arrested during clashes with soldiers in Cairo earlier this month. The New York-based group said...

Benghazi was the birthplace of the February 17, 2011 uprising that put an end to more than four decades of dictatorship in Libya. "This was long overdue and I am so happy to be living this historic...

DAMASCUS- Regime forces fired on protesters who took to the streets of Aleppo on Friday, wounding several people at the biggest rally seen in Syria's second city since a revolt erupted last year, a...

LONDON, Beatrice Debut- The king of Bahrain, whose regime has been accused of rights abuses, was among nearly 50 foreign royals at a lunch on Friday to mark the diamond jubilee of Britain's Queen...