BEIRUT- Hundreds of Syrians have been released from government prisons after an amnesty granted by President Bashar al-Assad to mark his re-election this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The...

MOSUL- Heavy fighting between security forces and militants and twin suicide bombings killed 36 people in north Iraq Friday, as deadly violence shook other parts of the country. The United Nations...

JERUSALEM- Israel's premier and president congratulated Egyptian president-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Friday, stressing their committment to the peace accord between the neighbouring states. Prime...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama Friday paid poetic tribute to the men who breached "Hitler's Wall" and stormed ashore to liberate Europe on D-Day, saying their sacrifice...

DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a new seven-year term with nearly 90 percent of a vote in a poll branded "illegitimate" by the opposition and a "non-election" by Washington. Assad said...

CAIRO- Interim President Adly Mansour on Thursday passed a law for parliamentary elections guaranteeing at least 12 percent of seats to women and four percent to Egypt's minority Christians. The...

UNITED NATIONS, Jennie Matthew- The head of the mission overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal urged Damascus on Wednesday to urgently hand over its remaining agents, and pressed...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Gunmen killed a senior Swiss staffer of the Red Cross in Libya on Wednesday, hours after a rogue ex-general who has taken on the country's jihadists was lightly wounded in a...

BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coalition after April...