UNITED NATIONS- The United Nations condemned the deadly double car bombing in Lebanon on Friday and appealed for restraint in the fractured country split over the war in neighboring Syria. The attack...

CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- Only a few thousand supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi turned out for protests Friday despite calls for massive marches, as Islamists reeled from a fierce...

DAMASCUS- The regime in war-torn Syria came under intense pressure Thursday to allow UN inspectors to probe an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus which the opposition says killed hundreds....

WASHINGTON, Mathieu Rabechault- Following reports of a large-scale chemical weapons strike, pressure is mounting on the United States and its Western allies to act to halt the violence in Syria. But,...

CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- An Egyptian court Wednesday ordered ex-president Hosni Mubarak freed while he stands trial accused of corruption and killing protesters, as authorities pressed their roundup...

AMMAN- Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday ahead of municipal elections next week, appointing two more women but leaving the foreign, interior and finance...

NICOSIA- Syria is believed to maintain one of the biggest arsenals of chemical weapons in the Middle East, but its exact makeup and size are unknown. On Wednesday, the opposition claimed that the...

TUNIS- Tunisia's prime minister warned Tuesday that he would not tolerate any attacks on state institutions during planned protests to call for his Islamist-led government's resignation, state media...

CAIRO, Sarah Benhaida- A campaign of repression by Egypt's government against the Muslim Brotherhood could force the group back into the shadows, once again becoming a clandestine organisation. A...