DAMASCUS- Damascus vowed to keep fighting "terrorism" and the opposition insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go, as both sides dug in Tuesday after a date for long-planned peace talks was set....
WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama praised the "leadership" of Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday after holding wide-ranging talks with the North African monarch for the first time at the White...
CAIRO, Mona Salem- Ten members of the panel drafting Egypt's new constitution suspended work Tuesday after authorities arrested several protesters, including a few prominent activists, a committee...
UNITED NATIONS, Timothy Witcher- The January 22 start of landmark Syria peace talks in Geneva will be difficult to keep as the war worsens and fallout spreads across the Middle East, analysts said....
BAGHDAD, Prashant Rao- Relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East could plunge to new lows as the violence in Syria worsens and sectarian rhetoric looms in upcoming Iraqi...
CAIRO, Sarah Benhaida- Locked in a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since president Mohamed Morsi's ouster, Egypt has launched a diplomatic offensive against the movement's foreign backers armed...
UNITED NATIONS- A meeting of UN, US and Russian envoys on Monday is expected to agree that a Syria peace conference should be held in January, diplomats said. UN leader Ban Ki-moon is to announce the...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Hundreds of residents on Friday called on Libyan militias still in Tripoli to follow other groups and withdraw, aiming to keep the momentum going a week after deadly clashes....
CAIRO- Egypt's interior minister on Saturday announced the arrest of dozens of "extremists" and accused the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed president Mohamed Morsi of financing radical Islamists linked...
UNITED NATIONS- US, Russian and UN envoys will meet in Geneva on Monday aiming to pin down a date for an international conference on the Syria conflict, a UN spokesman said Friday. Diplomats say UN...
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