CAIRO, Sara Hussein- Sherif Gamal Siyam spent his last minutes in an Egyptian police van, suffocating to death after tear gas was fired into the vehicle taking him to the Abu Zaabal jail. He had been...
PARIS- Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Europe may have been trading with settled farmers as long as 7,000 years ago -- acquiring pigs to supplement their hauls of wild boar, scientists said Tuesday. A...
DAMASCUS- UN experts are Monday to start investigating a suspected Syrian chemical attack as a sceptical Washington weighing military action and coordinating with allies said Syria's acceptance of...
CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- Egypt's toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak appeared in court Sunday for the first time since his release to house arrest, as a separate court adjourned a hearing of Muslim...
CAIRO- Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak returns to court Sunday to face charges over protester deaths, as Muslim Brotherhood leaders make their first appearances in court on similar but...
TRIPOLI- Clashes between members of a western Libyan tribal group and people in the town of Zawiya have left four dead, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said Saturday. Violence, including political...
WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed their grave concern Saturday about the "increasing signs" of a major chemical weapons attack in Syria. A White...
WASHINGTON, Mathieu Rabechault- A US photojournalist who escaped from Syrian rebels after seven months in captivity revealed details of his ordeal Friday and spoke of his anguish at leaving a fellow...
NEW YORK- UN Security Council members are seeking "clarity" on opposition claims that Syrian troops used chemical weapons in an attack near Damascus, Argentina's UN envoy, the council president, said...
"Over 650 confirmed dead result of deadly chemical weapon attack in Syria," the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Twitter, as videos showed medics attending to suffocating children...