Politics

Libyan president vows his country will not be a burden - 09/25/2012

NEW YORK- New Libyan President Mohamed al-Megaryef on Monday vowed his country would not be a burden to the international community as he held his first face-to-face talks with US Secretary of State...

Syria aircraft pound rebels as they claim control - 09/24/2012

ATMA, Syria- Regime aircraft hammered insurgent bastions nationwide on Sunday as rebels said they now control most of the country and have moved their command centre from Turkey to "liberated areas"...

Obama thanks Egypt for embassy protection, says Morsi - 09/24/2012

CAIRO- US President Barack Obama has thanked Egypt's leader Mohamed Morsi for securing the American embassy in Cairo during protests against an anti-Islam film, according to Morsi's official Facebook...

Libyan authorities to dissolve 'unlawful' militias - 09/23/2012

The authorities also decided to put in place an "operations room" in Benghazi bringing together the army, forces of the interior ministry and defence ministry brigades comprising former rebels. And...

Syria army, rebels clash near Aleppo bases - 09/22/2012

DAMASCUS- Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with rebels near a barracks in Aleppo on Friday as battles broke out around a military airport elsewhere in the northern province,...

Lebanon Muslims protest film, cartoons amid death calls - 09/22/2012

BEIRUT, Alison Tahmizian Meuse- Lebanese Muslims, both Sunni and Shiite, took to the streets on Friday to protest against an anti-Islam film and French cartoons insulting the Prophet Mohammed, with...

Tens of thousands rally against militias in east Libya - 09/22/2012

BENGHAZI, Libya, Dominique Soguel- An estimated 30,000 Libyans rallied against militias in the tense city of Benghazi on Friday, drowning out a protest by radical Salafists angry over a film and...

Western missions under siege as Muslim riots spread - 09/21/2012

ISLAMABAD, Khurram Shahzad- Thousands of Pakistanis attempted to storm Islamabad's diplomatic enclave on Thursday, as anger mounted across the Muslim world over perceived Western insults to the...

Syria fighting rages as UN chief sees no end 18 months on - 09/20/2012

DAMASCUS- Syrian rebels seized a crossing on the Turkish border Wednesday even as they quit a swathe of south Damascus that activists said had been reduced to a disaster area by weeks of heavy...

France closes missions, schools in Egypt and Tunisia - 09/20/2012

TUNIS, Antoine Lambroschini- France said Wednesday it would secure its diplomatic missions and close schools in Egypt and Tunisia fearing violence after a French magazine published cartoons of a...
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