Representatives from both Abbas's Fatah and Hamas movements have met several times to try to hammer out a final line-up for the government and agree on who should head it."The atmosphere was...

CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- The verdict in the landmark murder and corruption trial of ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has been set for June 2, Judge Ahmed Refaat said on Wednesday.Mubarak, his...

SANAA, Acil Tabbara- Yemen announced on Wednesday a high turnout in a landmark vote that ended Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule and named a new president, despite boycott calls in the south, where...

DAMASCUS- Syrian forces killed 68 civilians Tuesday as they blitzed the city of Homs and a village in Idlib province, monitors said, as the United States expressed support for a humanitarian...

BAGHDAD- Iraq will approve the nomination of a non-resident Saudi ambassador, the Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday, terming it a positive sign for the normalisation of ties between the two...

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar and Jamal al-Jabiri- Yemeni voters ended President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule in a historic ballot on Tuesday, pinning hopes on a new leader faced with the massive...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday.At least 113...

OFER MILITARY COURT- A Palestinian villager who is on trial for organising popular protests in the West Bank told a court on Sunday that the charges against him were "fiction." Bassem Tamimi was...

SANAA- Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who will become Yemen's next president after Tuesday's referendum, is a career soldier with no popular or tribal base but who has emerged as a consensus figure in the...