AMMAN- Jordan's government on Monday approved the creation of a 52-strong National Dialogue Committee charged with drawing up a new electoral law within three months, the official Petra news agency...

BREGA, Tahar Majdoub- Libyan rebels on Sunday retreated from another key town under heavy shelling from government forces as Moamer Kadhafi loyalists swept closer towards the main opposition-held...

CASABLANCA- Dozens of protesters were injured, some seriously, Sunday during a clash with security forces who tried to storm the headquarters of a left-wing party in Casablanca, witnesses and...

CAIRO- Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa in the past 24 hours. LIBYA: Libyan rebel fighters beat a retreat from positions near the oil town of Ras Lanuf...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama's top anti-terror advisor John Brennan on Friday called Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to welcome his pledge to devolve power and urged the opposition to...

ZAWIYAH, Antoine Lambroschini- A Libyan soldier fired off a AK-47 rifle out of a window in a bullet-riddled building in Zawiyah to celebrate the recapture of the town where rebels had put up a fierce...

KUWAIT CITY- Kuwait's elite anti-riot police on Friday used tear gas to disperse hundreds of stateless Arab protesters who were demanding citizenship and other rights. About 500 demonstrators took...

TRIPOLI, Antoine Lambroschini- Moamer Kadhafi accused the West on Wednesday of wanting to seize Libya's oil and warned that a no-fly zone would backfire as his forces pounded rebel lines, setting a...

SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi- At least two people were killed on Wednesday in a fresh round of deadly clashes across Yemen, where anti-regime protests have been raging since late January, medical and...