BRUSSELS- US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday for talks with King Abdullah about the crisis in Iraq. Speaking on the sidelines of talks at NATO, Kerry announced the...

CAIRO- An Egyptian television soap opera has been banned days before it was to be aired because the censors believe it shows police in a negative light, its scriptwriter said Wednesday. "Ahl...

DAMASCUS- Rebel mortar fire on a government-held district of Damascus killed five people Tuesday, state media said, as a car bomb killed one person in a pro-government area of third city Homs. Five...

LONDON- British security forces will find it impossible to monitor all the estimated 500 jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq after they return home, a former top intelligence official said Monday....

BEIRUT- A suicide car bombing in a southern Beirut suburb overnight left 12 people injured, the official Lebanese news agency said Tuesday. The explosion happened around midnight local time on...

CAIRO, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- An Egyptian court jailed three Al-Jazeera journalists, including Australia's award-winning Peter Greste on Monday, a ruling that sparked global outrage and a US call for...

JERUSALEM- Israel carried out retaliatory air raids on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights overnight after a teenager on the Israeli side was killed in an attack from Syria, the army said...

PARIS- Physicists on Sunday said they had learned more about the identity of the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose ground-breaking discovery was announced nearly two years ago. Work at the...

BEIRUT- Air raids killed 16 people in Syria's Deir Ezzor province Saturday, most of them people gathered at a mourning tent for rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) officers murdered by jihadists, an NGO...