By: Mohammed Abdullah Al-Yadumi* - The Islamic nation is now at a crossroads after the recent coup staged against democracy and its elected institutions. Those elected institutions were the fruit of...
DAMASCUS, Sammy Ketz- The Syrian colonel is still astounded. He was directing operations from the second floor of building when he heard gunfire -- rebels had penetrated his headquarters via an...
WASHINGTON- US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who is in Egypt to discuss its political crisis, has no meeting scheduled with deposed president Mohamed Morsi, the State Department said...
WASHINGTON- The United States said Sunday that 19 of its embassies and consulates in the Mideast and Africa would be closed through August 10 over terror fears. The list includes 15 that were closed...
BEIRUT- Rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime captured an arms and ammunition dump in the Qalamun area near Damascus early on Saturday, a watchdog said. In the north, fighting...
WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden spoke Saturday with Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki, two days after government figures showed July was the war-battered country's deadliest month in more than five...
THE HAGUE- Zoologists are baffled by the strange behaviour of a troop of baboons at a Dutch zoo which have become inexplicably withdrawn, apparently fearful of an unseen threat. "They became panicked...
BEIRUT- Two rockets fired from an unknown location exploded early Friday outside Beirut, a security source told AFP, with one landing just metres from an entrance to the presidential palace. "Two...
WASHINGTON, Robert Macpherson- For several days now, US public radio personality Scott Simon has been live-tweeting from the deathbed of his 84-year-old mother -- and in the process, challenging a...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Islamist backers of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi staged defiant rallies Friday and clashed with police in Cairo, after the government ordered their protest camps to...
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