LONDON- British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday demanded that Moamer Kadhafi step down but said the Libyan leader may be allowed to remain in the North African country.
Speaking ahead of...
CAIRO- A Cairo court on Monday decided to merge the trials of former president Hosni Mubarak and ex-interior minister Habib al-Adly, both accused of killing protesters during an uprising that toppled...
DAMASCUS- The Syrian army consolidated its grip on the hotbed city of Homs on Sunday, activists said, as embattled President Bashar al-Assad sacked the governor of a flashpoint province 48 hours...
STOCKHOLM, Rita Devlin Marier- Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the radar,...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- NATO-led warplanes struck the Libyan capital early on Saturday, with the alliance saying they hit a military command centre and Moamer Kadhafi's regime saying that civilians...
DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces killed at least eight civilians on Friday as more than 1.2 million people protested against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, activists said.
France and Britain...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Hundreds of Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to push for reforms, as Islamists held a separate demonstration calling for stability....
TRIPOLI- Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi Thursday ruled out talks with his foes to end a five-month rebellion against his rule and said the battle had already been decided in his favour.
"The battle...
DAMASCUS- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denounced on Wednesday the "escalating violence" in Syria, and called on authorities there to "immediately" stop the bloody repression.
His remarks came...
BENGHAZI, Andrew Beatty- Libya's rebels ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive on Wednesday, pushing Moamer Kadhafi's troops into retreat in the east and preparing a fresh attack from the south of...