BENGHAZI, LIBYA, Ibrahim Majbari- Backers and opponents of federalism clashed in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday with guns, rocks and knives, amid conflicting reports on casualties."One...

State television showed tens of thousands of people waving Syrian flags and Assad's portrait in squares in Damascus, the northern city of Aleppo, Latakia on the Mediterranean coast, Suweida to the...

Committee representation would be evenly split between the regions of Tripolitana in the west, Cyrenaica in the east and Fezzan in the south, judicial committee chairman Salwa al-Deghili told...

DAMASCUS- UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan and Russia urged President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to speed up efforts to end the bloodletting in Syria, as regime forces overran another rebel...

SANAA- Representatives of Yemen's ultra-conservative Salafist community agreed on Wednesday to form a political union, they announced at the end of a two-day conference."The conference has decided to...

DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad responded Tuesday to UN-Arab League proposals for an end to the bloodshed in Syria even as monitors said nearly 50 more people were killed and a pro-regime...

A tribal chief confirmed the raid, which came two hours after another official said three policemen were killed in a suicide attack in Bayda."Three policemen were killed and six others were wounded...

Under the deal, which came into force at 1:00 am (2300 GMT on Monday), both Israel and militants from Islamic Jihad, who were responsible for most of the rocket attacks, agreed to hold their...

Some protesters praised the militias for the fight they put up to bring down last year the regime of Moamer Kadhafi but said it is time they come into the fold of the new government."We recognize...