DUBAI- Bahrain announced the deportation of four foreign activists for "taking part in illegal demonstrations," bringing to 12 the number expelled over the past week.
The four were deported for...
DAMASCUS- Security forces shot dead a mourner at a huge funeral on Saturday for demonstrators killed in rare protests in the Syrian capital, as a senior Chinese envoy issued a plea for the bloodshed...
BAGHDAD- Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi accused some Arab states he did not identify Friday of helping to fund terrorism, and expressed concern about security at the Syrian border....
NEW YORK- New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose richly crafted dispatches surveyed two decades of Middle East turmoil, has died in Syria of an asthma...
WASHINGTON- A top Republican lawmaker called for "punitive action" Thursday against Egyptian officials for the crackdown on US democracy advocates, specifically targeting its minister of...
JERUSALEM- At least eight Palestinian children and a teacher were killed Thursday when an articulated lorry skidded on a wet road in the West Bank and collided with a school bus, police and medics...
DUBAI- Bahraini police fired tear gas and birdshot at pro-democracy protesters and arrested dozens in clashes that raged through the night and into early Wednesday, the opposition said, as the...
BAGHDAD- Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki will visit Kuwait ahead of a late-March Arab summit to try to improve ties still strained by Iraq's 1990 invasion of the emirate, a statement released on Tuesday...
DUBAI, Taieb Mahjoub- Bahraini police clashed with protesters on Monday, witnesses said, as the public security chief warned citizens not to heed calls by activists to mark the first anniversary of a...
RIYADH, Assad Abboud- A Saudi journalist wanted in the kingdom for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed was arrested after Malaysia deported him and will face charges of blasphemy, a...