According to the official MENA news agency, Mubarak received gifts worth seven million Egyptian pounds (around one million dollars) from the Al-Ahram press foundation between 2006 and 2011 when he...

GENEVA- The number of Syrian refugees registered in neighbouring countries and North Africa has jumped by more than 100,000 in the past month to over 600,000, the UN's refugee body said Friday. The...

TUNIS- A United Nations working group on discrimination against women on Friday expressed fears for the future of women's rights in Tunisia, urging the Islamist-led government to guarantee equality...

DAMASCUS- Damascus on Thursday accused joint UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi of "flagrant bias" against it, a day ahead of talks he was to hold with top US and Russian officials on Syria's...

"That is not the behaviour of somebody seeking peace." Abbas and Meshaal met in Cairo late on Wednesday, and a Hamas official said on Thursday the two agreed to expedite a stalled reconciliation deal...

They also urged Belkhadem to "voluntarily and from now announce his intention (to quit) to allow proper preparation for the party meeting," the statement said. The eight who signed are the ministers...

Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in charge of reconciliation efforts between his Fatah party, of which Abbas is head, said Abbas was traveling to Egypt at Morsi's invitation to discuss the subject. Meshaal and...

DAMASCUS- Syria's domestic opposition on Monday snubbed a call to dialogue from President Bashar al-Assad, as NATO powers challenged the leader's defiant grip on power and dispatched Patriot missile...

Nuland also said that Assad's proposal undermined the work of special UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, and "would only allow the regime to further perpetuate its bloody oppression of the...