JERUSALEM, Jean-Luc Renaudie- Israel on Tuesday said it would build 2,000 settler homes and freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax monies to punish them for successfully joining UNESCO, drawing an...

TRIPOLI- Misrata militias are carrying out revenge attacks on the displaced residents of the nearby town of Tawargha, a stronghold of Moamer Kadhafi loyalists during Libya's eight-month conflict, a...

Calm prevailed for some eight hours before Israel mounted a fresh air strike on what the military said was "a terrorist squad that was preparing to fire rockets at Israel," killing one militant and...

LONDON- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that any Western action against his country would cause an "earthquake" that would inflame the region, in an interview published in a British...

The statement came as a Syrian rights group said soldiers killed at least 35 people on Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the deaths were in Hama, in the...

THE HAGUE, Jan Hennop- The International Criminal Court said Friday it was in contact with slain Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam over his surrender, as NATO decided to end its...

DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces killed eight people on Thursday, including two children, activists said, as UN Security Council permanent member China urged President Bashar al-Assad to accelerate...

BENGHAZI, Jay Deshmukh- Libya's new leaders vowed on Thursday to bring Moamer Kadhafi's killers to justice in a sharp break with their previous insistence he was caught in the crossfire with his own...

TUNIS- Violent protests broke out in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, where the uprising that ousted Zine el Abidine Ben Ali started, after election results announced Thursday, witnesses and...