Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's decision to dissolve the vice president's guard unit had increased the threat level, said Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in a Baghdad court. "I have...

DUBAI- Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets on Friday in a demonstration called by the opposition to protest against constitutional reforms that they say are not enough. The demonstration was...

PARIS- French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday rejected as "grotesque" claims by lawyers for former Libyan premier Baghdadi al-Mahmudi that Moamer Kadhafi's regime funded his 2007 election...

Ghaleb Zubi, a former MP and cabinet member who hails from one of Jordan's largest tribes in the north, was named as interior minister. In the cabinet, which no longer features a youth and sports...

TRIPOLI- Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday criminalised the glorification of slain leader Moamer Kadhafi and his regime. "Praising or glorifying Moamer Kadhafi, his regime,...

CAIRO- Politicians in Egypt offered conflicting views on Tuesday about whether the ruling military will reshuffle the cabinet before presidential elections due next month. The Freedom and Justice...

DUBAI- Bahrain's highest appeals court on Monday ordered the retrial of opposition activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on hunger strike since February 8, and other dissidents, lawyers said....

TUNIS- President Mahmud Abbas on Monday confirmed that his government intended to bring to the United Nations the case of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. "The...

DAMASCUS- A veteran peacekeeper urged all sides to "stop the violence" as he flew in to Syria on Sunday to lead a UN observer force for a more than two-week-old ceasefire that has failed to stop...