ANKARA, Fulya Ozerkan- The US ambassador to Syria on Friday criticised Iran's "unhelpful" role in the Syrian conflict and appealed for more from Russia to help the refugees fleeing their war-torn...

CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- Five people were killed in the Egyptian canal city of Suez on Friday, as protesters clashed with police and mass rallies shook Egypt on the second anniversary of the revolt...

PARIS, Olivier Thibault- It has been called the world's oldest recorded disease, an evil that humans have known for more than 3,500 years, as papyri from ancient Egypt testify. Yet drugs to cure...

AMMAN, Musa Hattar- Tribal leaders, pro-regime loyalists and independent businessmen are set to sweep Jordan's parliamentary election that was shunned by Islamists, preliminary results showed on...

CAIRO, Christophe de Roquefeuil- Egypt on Friday marks two years since the start of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak and brought in an Islamist president, at a time of deep political...

DAMASCUS- A suicide car bombing in central Syria killed at least 30 people on Monday, a watchdog said, also reporting a powerful blast in Damascus, as the Arab League said UN efforts to end the...

IN AMENAS, Algeria, Amal Belalloufi- Troops captured five kidnappers and found the bodies of 25 captives at a remote Algerian gas plant on Sunday, a report said, as Algiers warned the toll from a...

DAMASCUS- Syrian Kurds urged the opposition on Saturday to halt a siege against them by Islamist rebels, as the UN condemned the killing of dozens of children across the country over the past week....

WASHINGTON- The apparent leader of a commando group that took hundreds of gas workers hostage in Algeria warned in a recording broadcast Saturday that he would blow up the factory if the army got too...