TRIPOLI- Libya on Sunday extended the deadline for voter registration by a week in a bid to broaden participation in the first national poll since the fall of slain leader Moamer Kadhafi's regime....
DAMASCUS- Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Saturday as a UN force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said. In Idlib province, a stronghold near the Turkish...
RIYADH, Assad Abboud- Gulf leaders at a meeting in Riyadh on Monday will discuss a Saudi proposal to develop their six-nation council into a union, likely to start with the kingdom and unrest-hit...
DAMASCUS- Tens of thousands of protesters defied Syrian regime gunfire and took to the streets Friday, as state TV said the army foiled a would-be suicide attack a day after twin bombings in Damascus...
WASHINGTON- The United States on Friday welcomed Egypt's televised presidential debate as a "good and healthy thing," while implicitly urging the candidates to respect the Egyptian-Israeli peace...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories- Israel is to reply on Saturday to a letter from Mahmud Abbas voicing the Palestinian president's grievances over the failed peace process, a senior Palestinian...
DAMASCUS- The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the deadliest bomb attacks of Syria's 14-month uprising, urging all sides to stick to an international peace plan after at least 55 people were...
Mission chief Major General Robert Mood was in the convoy but escaped unharmed along with 11 other observers and his spokesman, Neeraj Singh, an AFP photographer travelling with them reported. The...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Abbas Momani- UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to try or release hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners after activists denounced his "silence" in a protest outside...
ANKARA, Turkey- Turkey will not extradite Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad, a senior official was quoted as saying on...
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