PARIS, FRANCE, Djallal Malti- European aircraft and aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled plans for a reusable space rocket launcher that should be ready in 2025, which the firm says will be radically...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- A rebel alliance including Al-Qaeda's Al-Nusra Front seized more territory in northwestern Syria overnight, strengthening its position on the borders of two key largely...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Maya Gebeily- Islamic State group jihadists, emboldened by a string of battlefield victories, advanced Thursday to the gates of the Syrian city of Hasakeh after intense fighting with...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- The chief of Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate described the rival Islamic State group's self-proclaimed caliphate as "illegitimate", in a wide-ranging television interview aired on...

TUNIS, TUNISIA, Mounir Souissi- Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring, faces a dilemma as it struggles to reconcile national security and media freedom in a country facing a rise in jihadist unrest....

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Sepp Blatter's shock resignation as FIFA president on Tuesday was hailed as "great for football" by one of his chief critics, English FA chief Greg Dyke, who said he suspected...

PARIS, FRANCE- Museum experts from around the world on Monday issued an "emergency red list" to help authorities identify Iraqi antiquities at risk of being looted and illegally exported as the...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- A fire ripped through an unofficial Syrian refugee camp in eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing a baby and injuring several others, a Red Cross official told AFP. The fire broke out in...

DOHA, QATAR- The editor of a popular daily newspaper in Qatar announced his resignation after the publication of a photograph depicting sex scenes from the Kama Sutra on Monday. Jaber al-Harmi,...