CAIRO, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- A top jihadist has been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said Friday, ahead of next week's presidential election expected to sweep Egypt's ex-army chief to...
BEIRUT- Activists and a medic in war-torn Syria on Friday claimed President Bashar al-Assad's regime used chlorine gas a day earlier to attack opposition-held towns in Hama and Idlib provinces. The...
CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- Unbowed by a savage crackdown, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood promises a war of attrition against the army chief who ousted it from power and appears certain to win next week's...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- The government Thursday urged militias to withdraw from Tripoli after parliament sought help from ex-rebels, amid fears of clashes with forces backing a rogue general intent on...
UNITED NATIONS- Russia will veto a draft UN Security Council resolution that calls for bringing Syria before the International Criminal Court, Moscow's ambassador said Wednesday. Vitaly Churkin...
TRIPOLI- Khalifa Haftar, the renegade Libyan general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi, called Wednesday for a civilian "presidential council" to be formed. Claiming to speak...
JEDDAH- Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam visited regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia Tuesday as his country struggled to elect a new president. Salam told reporters in the Red Sea city of Jeddah...
MOSCOW- Russia would veto a draft United Nations Security Council calling for Syria to be hauled before the International Criminal Court, deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov said Tuesday. "The...
TARTUS, Sammy Ketz- Tartus has itself largely escaped the conflict in Syria, but posters of its sons killed fighting for the regime elsewhere in the country line the western city's main road. A wall...
BEIRUT- Syria's army pressed a counter-offensive against rebels in the south of the country Saturday, firing a surface-to-surface missile and carrying out numerous air strikes in the area, a...
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