UNITED NATIONS- The United Nations is trying to negotiate the release of 21 peacekeepers abducted by Syrian rebels and will review security for its Golan Heights observer force, officials said...

TUNIS- Tunisia's new coalition government will be unveiled on Friday, premier-designate Ali Larayedh said, after a deal was reached in last-minute talks aimed at ending the country's political...

DAMASCUS- Syrian rebels on Wednesday said they seized some 20 UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel as rebels took total control of the key northern city of Raqa. UN deputy...

CAIRO- Egypt's administrative court on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of controversial parliamentary elections scheduled for April 22, throwing the country deeper into political crisis. President...

TRIPOLI- Protesters demanding that Libya's national assembly adopt a bill banning from politics associates of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi blocked MPs from leaving a meeting room on Tuesday, one MP...

PORT SAID- The main security building in Egypt's Port Said was set ablaze on Monday as fighting which cost six lives erupted anew between police and protesters in the restive Suez Canal city, an AFP...

Wearing the full costume of the shadowy comic book hero including a cape, he then "promptly vanished into the night to fight crime and the fear of crime in Bradford", West Yorkshire Police said. The...

PARIS, Mariette Le Roux- AIDS experts cautioned Monday against hype of a cure after doctors in the United States suppressed HIV in a child born with the virus by administering a potent drug cocktail...

DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad has insisted he will not step down and blasted Britain's support for his foes, as opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib visited north Syria Sunday and hundreds...