BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim- An Iraqi court heard on Tuesday testimony from witnesses claiming Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi masterminded killings of his opponents, charges he has dismissed as...

DAMASCUS- Syrian troops on Monday pushed an assault on a central rebel bastion, with dozens reportedly killed across the country, as Saudi Arabia warned that Kofi Annan's peace efforts appeared to be...

DAMASCUS- Troops stormed a village in central Syria on Sunday and rained shells on rebel strongholds Douma and Rastan, monitors said, as a UN-backed truce entered a second month was looking in...

RIYADH- Bahrain's premier has backed Saudi Arabia's plan for the creation of a Gulf union, a report said Sunday, but the nation's Shiite opposition is demanding the proposal be put to a referendum....

He was arrested and charged in April by the state security court after a report on his website quoted an unnamed lawmaker as claiming "lower house deputies had received royal directives not to indict...

ALGIERS, Beatrice Khadige- Algeria's ruling party tightened its grip on power in an election that bucked the regional trend of Islamists gaining strength since the Arab Spring, according to results...

RABAT- Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday sacked the president of the country's top broadcasting panel, following disputes over new measures regulating television broadcasts, MAP news agency...

ANKARA, Fulya Ozerkan- Moves by Turkey's Islamist-rooted government to privatise state-owned theatres have enraged secular-minded artists, who fear the move will be a "death warrant" for the arts....

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini - Experts have long debated whether the sophisticated animal drawings in a famous French cave are indeed the oldest of their kind in the world, and a study out Monday...