TRIPOLI- Two Libyan journalists kidnapped while covering elections in the town of Bani Walid, a final bastion of fighters loyal to toppled leader Moamer Kadhafi, were released on Monday. "The two...
DAMASCUS- Syria's army blasted rebel strongholds in Damascus with mortars Sunday, sparking the "most intense" fighting in the capital since the revolt erupted 16 months ago, a monitoring group said....
AMMAN- Jordanian anti-riot police fired tear gas on Sunday to break up a crowd of angry Libyans who attacked Tripoli's embassy with stones, over unpaid medical bills, according to an AFP reporter....
DUBAI- Bahrain announced on Saturday that it had deported US filmmaker Jen Marlowe, accusing her of falsifying her visa application and shooting a documentary without permission. Marlowe, a...
BAGHDAD- Hundreds of Iraqi Communist Party supporters marched through Baghdad on Saturday to mark the July 14 revolution, when army officers overthrew the country's monarchy and declared Iraq a...
JERUSALEM- An Israeli teenager who killed a Palestinian from east Jerusalem in a racially-motivated attack last year has been sentenced to eight years in jail. In February 2011, 24-year-old Hossam...
AL KARM, Tunisia- The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda told AFP on Friday his party's first congress would consider a government reshuffle and enlarging the government coalition. "We are...
WASHINGTON- Nominations are open for the world's first Cannes for cats. The al fresco Internet Cat Video Film Festival will unspool -- in the space of an hour or so, given how short cat videos can be...
BEIRUT- Syrian government troops using tanks and helicopters Thursday massacred more than 150 people in the central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, while a rebel...
LONDON, Robin Millard- The BBC World Service transmitted its final bulletin from Bush House in London on Thursday, ending 71 years of radio broadcasts from the building that kept millions informed...
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