MISRATA, Marc Burleigh- A ferry rescued almost 1,000 people from Misrata on Monday and Britain said it plans to pick up 5,000 more, as UN officials said Moamer Kadhafi's government has guaranteed...

SAN ANTONIO- A controversial general who commanded US ground forces in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib scandal said Monday he is mulling a run under the Democratic ticket for a US senate seat in Texas....

SANAA- Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in massive protests demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh across Yemen on Sunday, amid reports of casualties in the capital...

JERUSALEM- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday appointed a senior Mossad official to be the new pointman in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants in...

AJDABIYA, Guillaume Lavallee- Regime forces bombarded rebels west of Ajdabiya on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and some fighters to flee the key crossroads town, as a refugee rescue operation...

DAMASCUS- At least four people were killed and around 50 wounded when Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession in Talbisseh near the central town of Homs on Sunday, witnesses said....

DAMASCUS- Thousands of protesters massed across Syria after weekly Muslim prayers on Friday as a global outcry widened over a deadly crackdown on month-old anti-regime demonstrations. As human...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Fighting raged in the long-besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Friday and Moamer Kadhafi's hometown was reportedly hit by NATO, as world leaders said the Libyan...

BERLIN- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived early Thursday in Berlin for NATO talks amid friction within the Western alliance over sharing the burden of the Libya military campaign. The...