CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- Egypt's armed forces have killed 32 "criminal elements" in an ongoing operation against Islamists in the lawless Sinai peninsula, a military spokesman said on Saturday. Colonel...

DAMASCUS- Fighting raged in Syria on Thursday, as troops and pro-regime neighbourhood militias clashed with rebels in the central region of Homs and as combat rattled Damascus and the area around the...

ALGIERS, Abdelhafid Daamache- Algeria's new Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal took office on Tuesday promising to push ahead with reforms four months after parliamentary elections, as key ministers...

Among those killed in the latest bloodshed was an entire family -- including seven children -- when a government air raid hit their home in the heart of Aleppo, witnesses told an AFP correspondent in...

HAREM, Syria, Herve Bar- Syrian rebels laid siege Sunday to Harem, on the Turkish border, confronting the army and security forces positioned in government buildings and the town's old castle, an AFP...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia- Arab monarchies in the Gulf on Sunday lambasted Syria's regime for deploying heavy weapons against civilians while ordering Iran not to interfere in their internal affairs. The...

TAFTANAZ, Syria, Herve Bar- Rebels launched deadly attacks on Syria's military Saturday in a campaign increasingly targeting its air power, as Russia said it was "naive" to expect its traditional...

VENICE, Italy, Dario Thuburn- The female director of Saudi Arabia's first feature film, showing at the Venice film festival, has explained how she beat the odds to produce the heartwarming tale of a...

REYHANLI, Turkey, Herve Bar- From a safe house in Turkey, working his way through one cigarette after another, Hassan Abu Ali told how he escaped from Syria -- and his conscripted post as a junior...