BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- A suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad on Saturday, the deadliest in a series of attacks that left 24 people dead nationwide days ahead of Shiite...

DOHA, Wissam Keyrouz - World powers supporting Syria's rebels decided on Saturday to provide them with urgent military aid so they can counter "brutal attacks" by the regime and "protect the Syrian...

WASHINGTON- The CIA and US special operations forces have been training Syrian rebels for months, since long before President Barack Obama announced plans to arm the opposition, the Los Angeles Times...

RAMALLAH, Hossam Ezzedine- Palestinian premier Rami Hamdallah on Friday withdrew an offer to quit a day after presenting it to president Mahmud Abbas, an official said, just two weeks after the...

RABAT, Omar Brouksy- Human Rights Watch has called on Moroccan judges to halt convictions based on confessions obtained through torture, saying in a report released on Friday that failure to probe...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama will defer to Nelson Mandela's family on whether he will visit the ailing anti-apartheid icon during his trip to South Africa next week, a top...

DAMASCUS- Syrian rebels urged friendly world powers on Thursday to provide them with heavier weapons and to impose a no-fly zone over parts of the country they control to avert a humanitarian...

ABU GHOSH, Majeda El-Batsh- Safaa Othman scraped together enough money to buy her new olive-green Nissan Juke just two weeks ago. But when she woke up earlier this week, she found it had been ravaged...

CAIRO- An Egyptian court on Tuesday ended the detention of Hosni Mubarak in one corruption case, judicial sources told AFP, but the ousted president will remain in custody on other charges. The North...