TUNIS, Antoine Lambroschini- The Tunisian government on Friday banned hardline Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia from holding its annual congress at the weekend, saying it posed a threat to public order...
WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Thursday Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organize peace...
CAIRO- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday held crisis talks with his defence and interior ministers over the kidnapping of policemen and soldiers in Sinai, as negotiations were underway to...
UNITED NATIONS, Tim Witcher- The UN General Assembly condemned President Bashar al-Assad's "escalation" of the Syrian war on Wednesday as rebels battled to free inmates from a prison in the key city...
SIDI MOUMEN, Morocco, Simon Martelli- "There's no water, no work and no future. There's nothing at all here," says Hamid bitterly as he walks through the sprawling slum of Sidi Moumen in Casablanca...
BEIRUT- A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on Tuesday. But the...
TRIPOLI- A bomb blast outside a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi could have been an accident, ministers said Tuesday, as the health ministry gave a "definitive" casualty toll of three dead and...
CAIRO- A Coptic Christian teacher in an Egyptian primary school will stand trial after colleagues and the parents of students accused her of insulting Islam and evangelising, a judicial source said...
CAIRO- The cousin and former aide of slain Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi appeared in court on Monday charged with the attempted murder of Egyptian police officers, an AFP reporter said. Ahmed Qaddaf...
WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- The United States and Britain stepped up pressure on Russia over Syria on Monday, but President Barack Obama warned old suspicions could trample new "common ground" on...
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