DAMASCUS, Rita Daou - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri began a landmark visit to his country's former powerbroker Syria on Saturday, on a two-day mission aimed at rebuilding ties between the two...

MADRID- Teams searching for the remains of Federico Garcia Lorca have found no trace of the Spanish poet who was executed during the civil war, after some two months of work, a regional official said...

JERUSALEM - Ten activists were arrested on Friday during a protest against the eviction of Palestinians in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, an AFP photographer reported. Police spokesman Micky...

DAMASCUS - Amin Hafez, the Syrian leader who headed the Baathist regime of the mid-1960s that oversaw the nationalisation of swathes of the economy, has died at the age of 88, state media reported on...

LAAYOUNE- Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar returned to the disputed Moroccan territory on Friday, after a month-long hunger strike at a Spanish airport to demand she be allowed...

LONDON - Britain's Prince Charles, known for his strong views on architecture and the environment, has written to ministers in recent years, raising concern of royal meddling in government business,...

JERUSALEM - Israeli police surrounded the French cultural centre in mostly Arab east Jerusalem on Thursday, apparently to detain the organiser of a Palestinian cultural event, a French diplomat...

SANAA - Yemeni security forces killed at least 28 Al-Qaeda militants and captured 17 others in operations backed by air strikes on Thursday that foiled imminent suicide attacks, the defence ministry...

PARIS - Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal...