JERUSALEM- Militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into southern Israel on Friday, officials said, as a fledgling truce in and around the Palestinian territory firmed up."One rocket hit an...

JERUSALEM- The Israeli air force and Gaza militants traded sporadic fire on Wednesday night but a fragile truce between the sides that ended four days of violence appeared to be largely holding.Late...

LONDON- A British newspaper on Wednesday published emails it claims were sent by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, allegedly revealing the regime sought advice from Iran on suppressing...

BEIRUT- Detainees in Syria's year-old crackdown on dissent face a "nightmarish world of systematic torture" that has set the country back decades, Amnesty International warned on Wednesday."The scale...

BRUSSELS, Laurent Thomet- The suspected arsonist behind a deadly fire at a Brussels mosque said Tuesday he set the Shiite place of worship ablaze to scare the community he blames for the violence in...

DAMASCUS- Activists denounced "the massacre" of 47 women and children, whose bodies were found in the flashpoint Syrian city of Homs, as major powers remained divided over what action to take amid a...

Dubai's general prosecutor decided to refer the case to the federal security court because Dhafairi's action "endangered the interests... and security" of the United Arab Emirates, the official WAM...

DAMASCUS- UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus on Sunday without managing to secure an accord to end bloodletting in Syria, as fighting raged in major flashpoints leaving dozens more...

BAGHDAD- Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad and cities in the Shiite-majority south of the country on Friday to condemn Bahrain for crushing an uprising a year ago.The protests,...