CAIRO- Egyptian police on Thursday arrested the Cairo bureau chief of an Iranian news station and a former Islamist lawmaker, security officials said. Ahmed Fahim Abdel Azim al-Suifi, the Egyptian...

RAMALLAH, Hossam Ezzedine- Palestinian officials demanded a global probe into the "killing" of Yasser Arafat on Thursday as Swiss experts said test results showed "moderate" backing for the theory he...

DAMASCUS- Bomb attacks in Damascus and southern Syria killed at least 16 people on Wednesday, a day after Moscow and Washington failed to announce a date for proposed peace talks. In Russia, Deputy...

CAIRO- A sniper shot dead an Egyptian soldier Wednesday in the lawless Sinai Peninsula where the army has been waging a relentless campaign to root out militants, a security official said. The...

RAMALLAH- Swiss scientists have concluded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat probably died from polonium poisoning, according to a text of their findings published by Al-Jazeera television on...

WASHINGTON- Chinese scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a pair of insects caught in the act of copulating, according to a study released Wednesday. The imprint of the male and...

CAIRO- The Reporters Without Borders watchdog on Tuesday condemned Egypt's arrest and military trials of journalists and denounced the suspension of a popular television show by a controversial...

GENEVA, Nina Larson- World powers failed Tuesday to set a date for a long-delayed Syria peace conference, as deep divisions persisted between rival camps over the conditions for their participation....

RIYADH, Jo Biddle- Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia Sunday hoping to repair ties with America's longstanding ally, which have frayed over the Syrian conflict and US outreach to...