DUBAI- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni security official employed by the US embassy in Sanaa in a hit-and-run attack on Thursday, US and security officials said. The murder came after a...

CAIRO, Mona Salem- Egypt's public prosecutor refused to resign on Thursday after President Mohamed Morsi ordered his removal to allay public anger over the acquittals of Mubarak-era officials. "I...

DAMASCUS- The Syrian regime rejected a UN call for a unilateral ceasefire on Wednesday as rebels confronted columns of tanks and troops sent to retake a town on the road to main battleground city...

CAIRO- Stalwarts of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were acquitted Wednesday of organising a notorious camel-borne assault on protesters during last year's uprising, the state MENA news...

AMMAN- Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wednesday designated veteran politician Abdullah Nsur to form a new government after prime minister Fayez Tarawneh and his government resigned ahead of legislative...

RABAT- Morocco's Islamist premier Abdelilah Benkirane insisted on Tuesday that democracy in his country was advancing slowly but surely, in an interview with France 24 television channel. "We are in...

The latter charge, which had earlier been dropped, carries a possible six-month jail term. The next hearing was set for October 16. The two men were arrested at the beginning of August for allegedly...

CAIRO- Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi on Monday pardoned all those arrested between the start of the revolution that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 and June this year, state media...

DAMASCUS- A car bomb rocked police headquarters in the capital on Sunday after Syrian mortar fire again struck a Turkish border village, prompting fresh retaliation, and as fierce fighting swept the...