WASHINGTON- The transfer of Syrian chemical weapons from a Danish container ship to a US vessel was completed on Wednesday in an Italian port, the Pentagon said in a statement. The disposal process...
BEIRUT- The UN children's agency and Human Rights Watch appealed Tuesday for the release of more than 100 Kurdish schoolboy and girls kidnapped by jihadists in Syria at the end of May. The militants...
BEIRUT- Syrian rebels, including the main Islamist factions, said Monday the creation of a caliphate by the Islamic State (IS) was "null and void". "We see that the announcement by the rejectionists...
HALHUL, Hazem Bader- Israel has found the bodies of three missing teenagers, accusing Hamas of their murder and vowing to make the Islamist movement pay. "This evening, we found three bodies and all...
RABAT, Simon Martelli- Morocco is promoting its moderate version of Islam as a counterweight to the widening jihadist threat in the Sahara, training hundreds of imams from affected countries, but...
BEIRUT, Sammy Ketz- The rise of jihadists in Iraq has set the West on edge, but Damascus sees it is an opportunity to legitimise its battle against rebels and promote it as a war on "terror"....
KHARTOUM, Ian Timberlake- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi landed in Islamist neighbour Sudan on Friday for a lightning visit, which an analyst said would attempt to shore up a regional...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Vote counting was underway Thursday after a Libyan general election marred by the murder of a leading women's rights activist and poor turnout yet applauded by Barack Obama as...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- A deadly attack on troops and low turnout Wednesday marred Libya's general election on which hopes were pinned of ending three years of turmoil since dictator Moamer Kadhafi's...
BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Beleaguered Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned rivals Wednesday against exploiting a Sunni militant onslaught for political gain and insisted that any new government must be...
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