TUNIS, Hamida Ben Salah- Tunisian security forces on Wednesday arrested five Salafist "terrorists" with links to two failed attacks in coastal resort towns, the first suicide bids in the country for...

GENEVA, Nina Larson- The UN health agency on Tuesday confirmed an outbreak of polio in war-torn Syria, which had been free of the crippling disease since 1999, and said it feared it would spread....

CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- The three judges presiding in Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie's trial withdrew from the proceedings Tuesday for "reasons of conscience", just days before Egypt's...

UNITED NATIONS- Syria is on target to meet a looming deadline to destroy its chemical weapons production equipment, even though inspectors have yet to visit all sites, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said...

WASHINGTON- Hackers from a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army claimed Monday they had taken control of US President Barack Obama's Twitter and Facebook accounts. The group, which backs...

RABAT- A Moroccan appeals court on Monday reduced the sentence of a journalist convicted on Syria-linked terror charges from four to three years, his lawyer told AFP. The court reduced journalist...

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- Ever wonder why snakes inspire such fear? A new study on monkeys out Monday says the brain has specific cells that fire off rapid warnings when confronted with slithery...

ABU DHABI- Stability in the Gulf monarchies is essential for Egypt's security, Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi said Sunday, a day after the United Arab Emirates pledged Cairo an extra $3.9 billion (2.8...

DAMASCUS- Syrian Kurds drove jihadists from an Iraq border crossing in fierce clashes Saturday, activists said, as the UN-Arab League envoy took his regional peace mission to regime ally Iran....