GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, Sara Hussein- A ceasefire took hold in and around Gaza after a week of cross-border violence between Israel and Palestinian militants that killed at least 160...

"Kasab deserved the extreme punishment... I think one sad, sorrowful chapter has come to an end," said P. Chidambaram, who took over as home minister following the attacks with a brief to reform the...

RABAT- The Friends of Syria group which supports the opposition is to meet in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh on December 12, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday. "The fourth...

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- Gaza militants said on Tuesday they were awaiting Israeli approval of a Cairo-brokered truce to their seven-day conflict as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in...

GENEVA- Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been appointed an ambassador of the UN's programme on HIV and AIDS and has been tasked with fighting discrimination against people living with the...

BEIRUT, Alison Tahmizian Meuse- The main Islamist rebel groups in Aleppo, a key front line in Syria's civil war, on Monday rejected the newly formed opposition bloc, saying they want an Islamic...

BEIRUT- The family of a Palestinian-Jordanian journalist missing in Syria for more than three months has appealed for help in securing his release, Beirut-based media rights watchdog SKeyes said on...

GAZA CITY- Three people were killed late Sunday evening in separate Israeli air strikes on Gaza, taking the death toll to 29 on the bloodiest day of Israel's bombing campaign, medics said. Two men...

WASHINGTON, Olivia Hampton- The row over the assault on the US mission in Libya has narrowed to focus on how and why the CIA's determination that it was a terror attack was left out of a public...