Politics

Turkish PM meets Hamas premier - 01/02/2012

Ankara has sought to mediate in efforts to reconcile Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah faction and Hamas despite Israeli ire over its contacts with the Islamist movement ruling the Gaza...

Syria opposition charts transition as blood flows - 01/01/2012

DAMASCUS- Syria's opposition, hoping to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has charted a transitional period eyeing regime change, as Arab League monitors say they have seen government snipers and...

Arabs dream of building democracy as 2012 begins - 01/01/2012

TRIPOLI, Jay Deshmukh- Millions of Arabs dream of attaining democracy in 2012, aiming to build on gains from the deadly protests that ousted two dictators and ended strongman Moamer Kadhafi's rule...

Gaza premier set to meet with Turkey PM on Sunday: agency - 01/01/2012

Haniya's visit comes after Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's talks in Turkey last month. On Friday, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said every Palestinian was welcome in Turkey. Ankara has sought...

Kurdish survivors do not believe Turkish attack was blunder - 12/31/2011

GULYAZI, Safak Timur - Survivors and witnesses of a Turkish air strike that killed 35 Kurdish villagers as they smuggled goods on Friday questioned the army's account that they had mistaken them for...

Relatives of slain Kurds speak of deliberate 'massacre' - 12/30/2011

ULUDERE, Safak Timur- Kitan Encu's eyes welled with tears as she recounted Thursday how she had to identify the bodies of Kurdish relatives killed in a Turkish air strike that may have been a...

Syria urged to give observers free hand - 12/29/2011

DAMASCUS- Arab monitors revisited the flashpoint Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday and headed to other protest hubs as world powers warned Damascus not to hinder their mission to reveal the truth...

Blocs moot early polls in Iraq standoff - 12/29/2011

Less than two weeks after US forces left Iraq, its government is now mired in crisis. Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has been charged with running a death squad while Prime Minister Nuri...

Arab Spring ushers in bright future despite worry - 12/29/2011

Protesters overthrew autocratic Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak a month later, while Libyans took up arms and finally toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, killing him in October. Following months of...

Syria police tear gas thousands in Homs as observers deploy - 12/28/2011

DAMASCUS- Syrian police used tear gas to disperse some 70,000 people who took to the streets of Homs on Tuesday as Arab observers visited there a day after dozens of people died in the crackdown on...
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