MOSCOW- Russia on Tuesday warned Saudi Arabia against supplying Syrian rebels with shoulder-launched missile launchers, saying such a move would endanger security across the Middle East and beyond....

DAMASCUS- Syria said Sunday it is ready to cooperate with a rare UN Security Council resolution to allow humanitarian access, so long as it respects "state sovereignty." A Saudi source, meanwhile,...

WASHINGTON- National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday she had no regrets about remarks she made about an attack in Benghazi, Libya that left a US ambassador dead and sparked a political...

Faced with bad options in Syria, President Obama is reviving a tactic he tried in an earlier war: leading from behind. "Leading from behind," you'll recall, is how a White House aide described...

UNITED NATIONS, Andre Viollaz- The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Saturday calling for humanitarian aid convoys to be allowed access across war-torn Syria, but diplomats...

ALGIERS, Abdelhafid Daamache- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who suffered a stroke last year, will run for a fourth term in April in response to demands from his supporters, officials said...

TRIPOLI- Voting for a constitutional panel will take place Wednesday in five Libyan regions where violence stopped people from going to polling stations as planned this week, the electoral commission...

WASHINGTON- A US diplomat pressed Cairo to respect "basic rights and freedoms" Thursday, warning that Egypt's stability and economic recovery were at stake, as a court opened a trial of Al-Jazeera...

TRIPOLI- The Libyan government decided Wednesday to recognise as "war victims" women who suffered sexual violence during the 2011 popular uprising that ousted and killed long-time dictator Moamer...