BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- The total number of Iraqi civilians and security force personnel killed in violence in 2010 was higher than the previous year, according to official statistics released on...

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday led condemnation of a New Year's Day bomb attack in a Coptic church in Egypt that claimed 21 lives, urging world leaders to defend Christians against...

RAMALLAH- The Arab population in "historic Palestine" will equal the Jewish population by 2014, and quickly outstrip it thereafter, Palestinian statistics released Thursday said. The figures...

TANGIERS, Omar Brouksy- Novelist Abdellah Taia, who has won acclaim in France and readers abroad, has challenged a taboo in his native Morocco and won't back down: he is the first writer to come out...

BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq are on track to be the lowest number this year since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by a...

LONDON- British diplomats feared Israel would use nuclear weapons in the event of another war with its Arab neigbours, secret files released Thursday showed. In 1980, British officials were...

TUNIS- Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali said Tuesday he was worried by days of social unrest in the north African country triggered by the attempted suicide of an unemployed man. "I have...

RAMALLAH- Mohamed Dahlan, the former Gaza strongman rumoured to be out of favour with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, was suspended from Fatah's leadership, the party said on Tuesday. The...

BRASILIA- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to lay the symbolic first stone of an embassy in Brazil this week, following Brasilia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state, the Palestinian...