Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. Stones and batons were wielded during the clashes in Change Square, epicentre of anti-regime protests since February and where a sit-in continues...

DAMASCUS- A first team of Arab League monitors landed in Syria late Monday to monitor a deal to end nine months of deadly violence, as 30 people died in gunfire in and near the besieged central city...

The parliamentary movement loyal to anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, said it backed the dissolution of parliament and early elections in a dispute that has seen Iraq's Sunni vice...

PARIS- On Monday France criticised the use of deadly force by the Yemeni government against demonstrators and warned it could seek targeted sanctions against regime officials accused of rights...

DAMASCUS- The opposition Syrian National Council appealed on Sunday for the Arab League to send observers immediately to the besieged city of Homs and other hot spots of a bloody crackdown on...

SANAA, Jamal al-Jabiri- Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Yemen's capital Sunday calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to face trial, a day after his forces and loyalists...

Thousands of civilians left their jobs or their studies to fight against Kadhafi when the popular uprising against his dictatorship morphed into a civil war. Since the Kadhafi regime collapsed and...

The warrant against Hashemi, issued nearly a week ago, has been the focus of a political row between Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, which is a part of his...

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- Security forces and backers of Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh shot dead nine protesters on Saturday, as Saleh said he would soon visit the US ahead of...