KUWAIT CITY, Omar Hasan- Winds of change that swept the Arab world are finally blowing on oil-rich Kuwait as a concerted youth-led campaign has forced the government to resign amid further calls for...

GENEVA, Lucy Christie- Syrian security forces committed crimes against humanity, including the killing and torture of children, after orders from the top of Bashar al-Assad's regime, UN-appointed...

CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egyptians flocked to the polls on Monday for a first post-revolution election, making a mostly orderly and joyous start to their transition to democracy after a week of violence...

CAIRO, Murad Murad- Arab finance ministers on Saturday drew up a list of sanctions against Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad's regime for defying an ultimatum to allow in observers and...

RABAT, Henri Mamarbachi- Morocco's moderate Islamist party won a parliamentary election for the first time, preliminary results showed Saturday, the latest religious party to achieve huge gains on...

CAIRO, Mona Salem- Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei indicated he would agree to head a new government if asked, as Egypt's military leader scrambled to defuse a political crisis ahead...

RIYADH, Abdel Hadi al-Habtoor- Saudi Arabia should embrace its Shiite minority to prevent Iran from using them to destabilise the Sunni-dominated kingdom, experts said after four Shiites were shot...

DAMASCUS- An Arab League deadline for Damascus to accept observers or face sanctions passed on Friday without a response from a defiant Syria, as activists reported more deaths in anti-regime...

CAIRO, Sarah Benhaida- Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday after days of deadly clashes, demanding the military rulers step down and rejecting their choice of...