WASHINGTON- The US Navy commandos who swooped on Osama bin Laden's compound reportedly came from a renowned squad known as "Team Six," an elite unit drawn from the already elite ranks of the SEALs....

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama Wednesday decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse, citing national security risks and saying the United States should not...

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- When Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu visits Britain and France this week, he will point to a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal as part of his fight to head off UN recognition of a...

WASHINGTON, Andrew Gully- The United States revealed Tuesday that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US commandos shot him dead and said the Pakistani authorities had been kept in the dark because they...

BENGHAZI- A car bomb exploded not far from a headquarters of Libya's rebels in their eastern bastion of Benghazi on Tuesday night, slightly injuring two people, officials said. The blast sparked...

DAMASCUS- Anti-regime protesters called for permanent sit-ins from Tuesday in Syria where more than 1,000 people were reportedly arrested as the European Union fine-tuned new sanctions against...

WASHINGTON- The White House said Monday it was weighing whether to release photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse amid calls from some key lawmakers to do so to prove the Al-Qaeda chief is truly...

DAMASCUS- The Syrian authorities on Monday set a deadline of 15 days for people who had committed "unlawful acts" to surrender, as 180 people were rounded up in the latest wave of arrests. The...

UNITED NATONS, Tim Witcher- The UN pulled its staff out of Tripoli on Sunday as the security situation in the Libyan capital deteriorated after air strikes apparently killed several members of Moamer...