RAMALLAH- Palestinian leaders Friday pressured US President Barack Obama to insist that Israel must accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas reacted...
DAMASCUS- Syrian troops on Thursday began withdrawing from Tall Kalakh, deploying on the outskirts of the western town that had been besieged following pro-democracy protests, a witness told AFP....
WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama declared Thursday that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on 1967 lines, igniting an immediate clash with Israeli Prime...
UNITED NATIONS, Pierre-Antoine Donnet- Arab leaders faced by uprisings this year have always come out with too little, too late, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in an interview with AFP on Wednesday....
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions Wednesday on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six top aides over their deadly crackdown on protests, telling Assad to...
WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce- "Somebody" knew about Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout but there is no proof that Pakistan's political and military leaders were aware of it, US Defense Secretary Robert...
BRUSSELS- European Union ambassadors discussed Tuesday possible sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but a decision will not be made until a meeting next week, diplomats said....
CAIRO- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is to apologise to the nation and plead for amnesty, three months after he was overthrown by a popular uprising, according to a report in the...
ALGIERS- Algeria will begin consulting political leaders on Saturday on reforms aimed at enhancing the country's democratic process, the presidential office said.
Speaker of the National Council...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Moamer Kadhafi's prime minister offered on Sunday a truce to the visiting UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib, in return for an immediate NATO ceasefire, as an...