AMMAN, Jo Biddle- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have laid the groundwork to resume peace talks frozen for three years and will meet in Washington within "the next week or so," US Secretary of...
BEIRUT- Lebanon officially asked the European Union on Thursday not to add Hezbollah to its blacklist of terrorist organisations, calling the militant group an "essential component of Lebanese...
BEIRUT- Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, a watchdog said on Wednesday. Elsewhere, a car bomb...
ALGIERS, Beatrice Khadige- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's return home after almost three months in hospital in Paris raises questions about his ability to complete the last nine months of...
QUNEITRA CROSSING- Mortar fire from inside Syria hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday, causing several fires to break out along the ceasefire line, an AFP correspondent reported. The...
PARIS- For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb. Each waxy cell is a perfect hexagon, its six wafer-thin sides providing not only strength to...
TRIPOLI- A Lebanese hospital has "forcibly" ejected 30 Syrians patients wounded in violence in their country, an activist said on Monday, while the hospital said they were discharged over unpaid...
WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- US Secretary of State John Kerry was returning to Jordan Monday on his sixth trip to the region as he tries to push Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks. Kerry will...
WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A broken T. rex tooth found in another dinosaur's tail bone offers the first hard evidence that the king of all meat-eating beasts hunted live prey, US paleontologists...
BEIRUT- Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon, where fierce fighting between the army and rebels has trapped hundreds of families, a monitor said. The Syrian...