BAGHDAD, Mohamad Ali Harissi- It will take decades before Iraq sees a female prime minister, and the lack of women in top government posts is disappointing, the country's women's minister told AFP in...

BENGHAZI, Ibrahim al-Majbari- Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib on Monday urged his nation's "silent majority" to protect the state against "pseudo-revolutionaries.""There must be...

A medical official at the military hospital in the southern port city of Aden, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "the death toll... has risen to at least 103" soldiers.He said "many soldiers...

SANAA- A "mysterious" blast ripped through a Yemeni military plane at a air force base near Sanaa international airport on Sunday without causing any casualties, an airport technician told AFP."An...

DAMASCUS- Syria faced harsh world condemnation on Saturday as it continued to block the Red Cross from delivering desperately needed aid to the vanquished rebel stronghold of Baba Amr in the city of...

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Libyan Islamists and independents on Saturday formed a new political party, electing as its leader a Muslim Brotherhood member who was a political prisoner under the regime...

"A small group of Syrians violated these laws but the UAE, in a compassionate decision in view of events in Syria, had decided not to ask this group to leave the country and accepted their pledges to...

UNITED NATIONS- UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday demanded unconditional humanitarian access to Syrian cities, saying there were "grisly" reports of summary executions and torture in Homs.But Syria's...

TRIPOLI- A UN commission investigating war crimes and human rights violations in Libya reported on Friday that NATO airstrikes in the country last year killed 60 civilians and wounded 55...