SHISHAN, Deborah Pasmantier- Fighters for Libya's new rulers on Saturday began an assault to overrun a bastion of Moamer Kadhafi, as secret files shed light on his fallen regime's links to US and...
The attack came as the army had said it made progress in the past few days in battles with Qaeda-linked fighters who, since the end of May, have been controlling the city of Zinjibar, east of Aden....
DAMASCUS- Syrian forces killed at least 17 people on Friday, activists said, as protesters piled pressure on the regime to quit and the EU tightened the noose on Damascus by slapping it with an oil...
ROME- Trade unionists at La Scala opera house in Milan on Friday announced a strike that will force the cancellation of next week's much-awaited performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio" by the...
GENEVA- Switzerland said Thursday it wanted to unlock $420 million (294 million euros) in frozen Libyan assets to assist the country's new interim government.
Speaking at the international Friends...
DAMASCUS- Security forces killed at least five people in Syria on Thursday, activists said, urging fresh anti-regime protests under the banner of "death rather than humiliation."
In Paris, US...
BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- A UN special rapporteur gave information to Washington indicating its forces summarily executed 10 Iraqis, among them four women and five children, in a 2006 raid, a leaked US...
TRIPOLI, Mohamed Hasni and Sarah Benhaida- Residents of Tripoli marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday, kneeling in prayer at the landmark Martyrs' Square as they rejoiced at the fall...
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The United States slapped sanctions on Syria's foreign minister and two other top officials on Tuesday as it pressed President Bashar al-Assad's regime to stop its...
JENIN, Nasser Abu Bakr- A hand-made olive-wood chair, fashioned to look like the blue seats at the United Nations, is SET to tour Europe to raise support for a Palestinian bid to join the world...
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