DAMASCUS- Security forces killed seven people in the town of Tall Kalakh on Sunday as Syria's unrest entered a third month and spilled over into Lebanon where a woman died at a border crossing....
JERUSALEM, Majeda El Batsh- Around 2,000 mourners laid the body of a Palestinian teenager killed in Jerusalem clashes to rest on Saturday as Israeli police kept a discreet watch but did not...
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- George Mitchell, who quit as US Middle East envoy amid deadlocked peace talks, has over decades built a reputation as a skilled, dogged, low-profile negotiator with a...
WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce- From his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden pushed for dramatic attacks on American cities and asserted his authority in correspondence with Al-Qaeda deputies, a US...
SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi- Gunmen killed three protesters tearing up posters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Thursday, raising to 19 the death toll in 24 hours and prompting Washington to say the...
DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces pressed on with a crackdown on Thursday, rounding up more opposition leaders, in a "brutal" campaign for which Washington warned that the regime would be held to...
TRIPOLI- Libyan state TV on Wednesday showed footage of strongman Moamer Kadhafi in a meeting, the first time he has appeared on television since an air strike that the regime termed an attempt on...
UNITED NATIONS, Pierre-Antoine Donnet- Syria on Wednesday withdrew a bitterly contested bid for a place on the UN Human Rights Council as it fought off growing international criticism of its deadly...
AMMAN- Jordan said on Wednesday it trusted the "wisdom" of neighbouring Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to stem an unprecedented wave of protests that has rocked his government since mid-March....
JERUSALEM- Ultra-nationalist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman hit out at Western governments on Tuesday for giving greater support to rebels in Libya than in the Jewish state's main foes...