BENGHAZI, Andrew Beatty- Rebels in the western Libyan town of Zliten were said to be low on ammunition and on the defensive on Sunday, as the regime said its forces had retaken the strategic...

UNITED NATIONS- UN leader Ban Ki-moon told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to immediately end his deadly military campaign against opponents, the United Nations said. Ban also said...

BETWEEN BIR AYAD AND SURMAN, Florent Marcie- Libyan rebels surged down from the mountains south of Tripoli on Saturday, claiming the capture of a strategic town on the path to the capital and pushing...

TOKYO, Frank Zeller- Yoko Ono has an idea for her disaster-scarred country Japan -- abandon nuclear energy for renewables and tap the geothermal energy beneath the unstable ground of the volcanic...

Maqdah said a tense calm had returned to the camp in the evening, as most militants and residents attended evening prayers before breaking the sunrise-to-sunset fast of the Muslim holy month of...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama and the leaders of Germany and France Friday pledged to consider new steps to punish Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his government over "indiscriminate"...

CAIRO- Egyptian military police used force to break up an "iftar" traditional evening meal for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, witnesses said. Activists and...

WASHINGTON- The Obama administration sent its ambassador back to Damascus on Thursday as it incrementally turned up the heat on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with tougher rhetoric and new...

But, he acknowledged: "We probably underestimated the resistance that would be put up by Kadhafi's forces." Juppe said the rebel National Transitional Council's ground forces "are making progress...