"While Israel has some concerns, it will raise them at the appropriate time. Israel calls on the Palestinian Authority to do the same and to enter into direct negotiations without delay," it added....

ISTANBUL- Syrian opposition movements announced the formation of a "historic" united front against President Bashar al-Assad's regime at a meeting in Turkey on Sunday. At home, meanwhile, a son of...

BEIRUT, Rana Moussaoui- Flushed with the triumph of her latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is the toast of the town as she sits in a Beirut cafe...

DAMASCUS- Angry supporters of President Bashar al-Assad tried Thursday to attack the US ambassador to Syria, in what Washington charged was a government campaign to intimidate American diplomats....

SIRTE, Jay Deshmukh- Libya's new rulers on Thursday stepped up the hunt for Moamer Kadhafi's inner circle, seeking the arrest of one of his sons, Saadi, amid conflicting reports of the capture of his...

DAMASCUS- The Syrian government and regime opponents blamed each other Wednesday for the murder of a nuclear engineer, the latest death among scientists in the flashpoint city of Homs. Meanwhile,...

DUBAI- A Bahraini special court has upheld life jail sentences served on seven Shiite opposition leaders convicted of plotting to overthrow the regime in the Gulf kingdom, BNA official news agency...

UNITED NATIONS- European powers have dropped demands for immediate sanctions against Syria's president in a new UN resolution circulated Tuesday to UN Security Council members. In a move aiming to...

"I therefore deplore today's decision to advance settlement expansion in East Jerusalem with approximately 1000 new housing units in Gilo," she said in a statement. "I call on the Israeli...