CHICAGO, Mira Oberman- Barack Obama became the first US president to cast an early vote Thursday, delighting supporters on a quick trip to his hometown of Chicago, squeezed into a punishing...

DAMASCUS- Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday that Syria and "most" rebel chiefs have agreed to a truce this week, boosting hopes of a breakthrough in the conflict, but the main armed...

BEIRUT, Albion Land- Lebanese President Michel Sleiman is pressing for all-party talks on forming a new government amid US pressure for assurances the country will be free of Syria's influence, his...

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Libya on Tuesday celebrates the first anniversary of its "liberation" from the regime of Moamer Kadhafi, even as fighting flared in a former bastion of the slain dictator....

DAMASCUS- Hopes of a truce being implemented in war-torn Syria during this week's Muslim Eid holidays are "slim," the Arab League said Monday, as heavy fighting erupted in Damascus and on northern...

DOHA- Qatar confirmed that its emir will visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, on the first such visit by an Arab head of state since the Islamist Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007....

BUENOS AIRES, Josefa Suarez- Hundreds of patients at Argentina's biggest mental hospital are turning fine arts training into real ability as painters, actors and musicians, and getting a fuller sense...

DAMASCUS- The army has taken a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Friday, as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian...

It comes after President Moncef Marzouki warned that radical Islamist militants pose a "great danger" to the Maghreb region, and following a wave of violent attacks -- blamed on Salafists -- on...