CAIRO- Rights group Amnesty International on Monday called on Egypt to immediately release a blogger who has gone on hunger strike to protest against his imprisonment by a military court. The...

An Israeli military court in the northern West Bank had accused Allawi of being a member of Hamas and of having "contacts" with the military wing of the Islamist movement, which rules the Gaza...

NICOSIA- Syria pressed on with a crackdown on anti-regime dissent Sunday, dispatching troop reinforcements to the flashpoint province of Homs and security forces near Damascus, activists said....

SIRTE, Rory Mulholland and Jay Deshmukh- Libya's new rulers said Sunday they have unearthed a mass grave of 1,700 prisoners slain by Moamer Kadhafi's regime in a 1996 uprising, a massacre that helped...

"I had already gone through menopause... My husband wanted to be a father. I wanted to be a mother too. I am in great health... and I have undergone a very thorough medical clearance," she told O...

DAMASCUS- New sanctions against Syria come into effect on Saturday as Turkey said it had intercepted an arms shipment at sea destined for the protest-wracked country after another day of deadly...

SIRTE, Rory Mulholland and Jay Deshmukh- Fighters for Libya's interim rulers entered Moamer Kadhafi's hometown of Sirte on Saturday in a surprise assault that NATO said it backed to halt brutal acts...

CAIRO- Around 5,000 teachers gathered outside the cabinet headquarters in Cairo on Saturday to demand better pay, vowing to pursue a strike that has crippled several schools around the country....

SIRTE, Rory Mulholland- Desperate residents fled Moamer Kadhafi's hometown Sirte on Friday, as fighters of Libya's interim government probed the city's eastern outskirts in anticipation of a final...