BAGHDAD, Prashant Rao- A wave of attacks in Iraq, mostly targeting Shiite Muslims, including a spate of market bombings, killed 47 people on Tuesday, raising fears of a revival of the country's...
CAIRO, Jailan Zayan and Haitham El-Tabei- The Egyptian army warned on Monday that if Islamist President Mohamed Morsi failed to meet the demands of the people within 48 hours, it would intervene with...
RAMALLAH- The Gazan winner of pan-Arab talent competition Arab Idol, Mohammed Assaf, performed in front of some 40,000 fans in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday. Crowds thronged a square near...
DAMASCUS- Air raids on Homs killed a woman and two children on Sunday, monitors said, as Syrian government forces pressed a ferocious assault on rebel-held parts of the city dubbed the "capital of...
ROME- Italy on Sunday mourned the death of 91-year-old astrophysicist Margherita Hack, cherished for her simple, bewitching methods of narrating the universe and her fight for civil rights. "Goodbye...
DAMASCUS- Syria's armed forces battered rebel-held parts of Homs city on Saturday with air raids, shelling and a ground offensive that prompted the opposition to issue a desperate plea for foreign...
BEIRUT- Syrian rebels advancing from the Jordanian border seized a strategic army position in the southern city of Daraa on Friday as fighting raged in the surrounding province, a watchdog said....
LONDON- A sermon condemning the sexual grooming of young girls was delivered Friday at 500 mosques across Britain after a series of trials in which men predominantly of South Asian origin were...
DAMASCUS- A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Christian area of the Syrian capital on Thursday as aid groups said they cannot keep pace with the ever-growing suffering. State media said...
BEIRUT- Lebanon's army on Thursday handed over a group of soldiers accused of abusing a detainee to the military police for questioning, a military source and the National News Agency said. The move...