TUNIS- A young Tunisian women's rights activist, who was arrested at the weekend while protesting against hardline Islamists, has been charged with possessing pepper spray, her lawyer said on...
AMMAN, Jo Biddle and Rana Moussaoui- World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace but warned that should he fail to negotiate a political transition they would back the...
PARIS- Hospitalised Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is recovering well in Paris and will return home soon, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said on Wednesday. "The president is in good health;...
JERUSALEM- The head of Israel's armed forces warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of "consequences" if fire continues from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan...
AMMAN- Jordan on Tuesday summoned the Iraqi charge d'affaires after employees at Baghdad's embassy beat and kicked Jordanian supporters of Saddam Hussein at a seminar on mass graves in Amman. "The...
BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he will overhaul Iraq's security strategy as a two-day wave of violence killed 89 people including 24 police,...
FALLUJAH, Iraq- Gunmen attacked a police station and an army position in the town of Rawa northwest of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least four police officers and wounding three, a local official...
DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people....
KAIROUAN, Tunisia, Antoine Lambroschini- Tunisian security forces deployed in strength on Saturday to head off clashes after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia called on its hardline Islamist...
CANNES, France, Richard Ingham- Saudi Arabia's first woman film maker, Haifaa Al-Mansour, said her country was becoming "more tolerant and more accepting" as she picked up an award in Cannes on...