DUBLIN, Claire Rosemberg- Britain and France on Friday failed to rally broad European Union support to arm Syria's rebels despite escalating concern over the use of chemical weapons in the conflict...

BEIRUT, Karim Abou Merhi- Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced the resignation of his government on Friday, citing divisions on several domestic issues, and called for the formation of a...

DAMASCUS- A suicide bomb attack on a central Damascus mosque on Thursday killed 42 people, including Syria's most prominent pro-regime Sunni cleric, and wounded dozens of others, the health ministry...

TRIPOLI- Relatives of Libyan former strongman Moamer Kadhafi who took refuge in Algeria in August 2011 left the country a long time ago, the Algerian envoy to Libya said on Thursday. "The family of...

An Islamist in the crowd who took umbrage at the poem attacked her, witnesses said, setting off a melee in which people hurled fire extinguishers at each other. Egypt's Islamist rulers strongly back...

JERUSALEM, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama Wednesday accepted Israel would not cede its right to confront Iran's nuclear threat to the United States, seeking to assuage anxiety over his...

DAMASCUS- Troops and insurgents Tuesday accused each other of using chemical weapons for the first time in Syria's two-year conflict, as the newly elected rebel premier ruled out dialogue with the...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Moamer Kadhafi's cousin Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, wanted by Tripoli for his role in the regime of the slain Libyan strongman, Egyptian officials...

NEW DELHI- India said it was looking forward to strengthening economic ties with Egypt as President Mohamed Morsi headed to New Delhi for talks starting on Tuesday. The Egyptian president is due to...