TUNIS, Mounir Souissi- Three young European women with topless protest group Femen were arrested on Wednesday after baring their breasts in Tunis, a first in the Arab world that sparked scuffles...
ISTANBUL- Veteran secular dissident Michel Kilo lashed out on television against Syria's opposition Coalition, as dissidents failed failed to agree on participating in a US-Russian peace initiative...
BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Violence in Iraq killed 27 people on Tuesday, officials said, as the country's cabinet discussed how to curb unrest that has left over 500 dead this month and raised fears of...
BRUSSELS, Claire Rosemberg- The European Union finally agreed Monday to lift its embargo against arming Syrian rebels, after tough talks that exposed sharp differences between Britain and France,...
BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- A feud between Iraqi Sunnis and the Shiite authorities they accuse of marginalising their community is driving a deadly spike in violence, but will stop short of all-out...
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait- Kuwait on Sunday urged its citizens to avoid Lebanon and those already there to leave "as soon as possible" after two rockets hit a stronghold of Shiite militia Hezbollah in the...
WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden called Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Friday amid anxiety over a rash of bombings and violence in the country and the situation in Syria, the White House...
ALGIERS- Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist reportedly behind Thursday's suicide bombings in Niger, is an Al-Qaeda veteran who was the mastermind of the devastating attack on an Algerian gas...
LONDON, Katy Lee- When Michael Adebolajo was filmed clutching the bloodied knives he apparently used to butcher a soldier, Britons were chilled by the strong London accent in which he spoke of his...
ISTANBUL, Serene Assir- Syria's main opposition group met for key talks in Istanbul on Thursday to debate whether to join a new US-Russian peace initiative to end the two-year civil war, while the...