CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba and Mona Salem- Several thousand protesters broke through a barbed-wire perimeter protecting the Cairo palace of President Mohamed Morsi on Friday to stage a noisy but peaceful...

DAMASCUS- Syria's army sent reinforcements to a rebel town near Damascus and clashes raged south of the city on Friday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged a "concerted push" to end the...

BEIRUT, Sarah Benhaida- The half a million Palestinian refugees living in Syria should keep out of the country's conflict and their neutrality be respected, UN Relief and Works Agency chief Filippo...

DAMASCUS- Troops waged fierce assaults on rebels around Syria on Thursday, as top Russian and US diplomats failed in talks with the UN peace envoy to reach any "sensational decisions" on ending the...

Hamas "announces the visit of Khaled Meshaal, head of the political bureau, tomorrow December 7, to participate in the celebration of the movement's 25th anniversary," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri...

CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi has defied calls to curb his sweeping powers or suspend proposed changes to the constitution, infuriating thousands of protesters who...

CAIRO- Allies and foes of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi lobbed fire bombs and rocks at each other on Wednesday as their simmering standoff over the Islamist president's expanded powers and a new constitution...

BRUSSELS, Bryan McManus- Western powers warned Damascus Tuesday there would be an immediate reaction to any use of chemical weapons as NATO prepared to approve a Turkish request for missiles to...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Israel stood firm Tuesday in the face of mounting international pressure as it pushed ahead with a swathe of settlement plans seen as threatening the viability of a future...