DAMASCUS- Syria on Monday rejected an Arab League plan for President Bashar al-Assad to step down and clear the way for a national unity government, a call Europeans welcomed as a potential...
SABA news agency said on its website that Saleh "is on his way to the United States to continue what is left of his medical treatment" for wounds sustained in a June bomb attack on his compound....
"No date has been set until now for a new meeting" after the fourth such talk was held in Amman on January 21, added the official who is close to the exploratory negotiations.
EU diplomacy chief...
CAIRO, Mona Salem- The Arab League on Sunday asked the UN to support a new plan for resolving the crisis in Syria that sees President Bashar al-Assad transferring power to his deputy and a government...
BENGHAZI, Ibrahim al-Majbari- Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday the nation would fall into a "civil war" if the ruling National Transitional Council resigned, as it faced its first major...
The group has also moved towards reconciliation with its longtime rival Fatah, and its chief Khaled Meshaal has talked about the need to focus on peaceful protest.
But the shifts have created a...
DAMASCUS- Army deserters on Saturday took the town of Douma northeast of Damascus on Saturday after fierce fighting, activists said, a day before the Arab League decides the future of its Syria...
It is there he spent his childhood before going into exile with his family to Kuwait, following the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 when the Jewish state seized the West Bank.
As a student at Kuwait...
CAIRO, Mona Salem- Egypt's Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood clinched more than two thirds of seats in parliament in historic polls after the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak,...
DAMASCUS- Pressure mounted on the Arab League on Friday to seek UN intervention in the face of growing exasperation that the bloc's hard-won observer mission in Syria has failed to staunch 10 months...