LONDON, Robin Millard- The UAE president was to face questions from Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday over allegations that three British men jailed in Dubai were tortured. Sheikh Khalifa bin...
DAMASCUS- A bombing in the heart of Damascus killed at least 13 people Tuesday as US President Barack Obama warned against rushing to act on allegations Syria's regime used chemical weapons on its...
ALGIERS- Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France at the weekend after suffering a mini-stroke, reassured Algerians on Tuesday about the state of his health, national media...
TAPUAH, Palestinian Territories- A knife-wielding Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli settler in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, in the first fatal anti-Israeli attack in the territory in 18...
DAMASCUS, Roueida Mabardi- Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid on Monday, surviving a blast against his convoy in Damascus, in the latest attack on top members of...
THE HAGUE- The international tribunal investigating the death of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri said Monday it would appoint a special investigator to identify those responsible for leaking witness...
KASSERINE, Tunisia- A land mine explosion seriously wounded two members of Tunisia's national guard on Monday as they pursued a group of armed Islamists near the Algerian border, the interior...
BEIRUT- A ground-to-ground missile was fired on a town in northern Syria on Sunday and killed at least four civilians, two of them children, a watchdog reported, as violence shook several Damascus...
CAIRO- President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday stepped back from a confrontation with the Egyptian judiciary over a proposed new law that would see several thousand judges sacked, proposing a conference to...
BAGHDAD, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting "sectarianism", the country's media regulator said on Sunday, as more than 220 people were...