DUBAI, Acil Tabbara- Mounting Western pressure on Yemen to intensify its campaign against Al-Qaeda could backfire in a country already weakened by internal conflicts and poverty and with a suspicious...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama urged his supporters Wednesday not to be discouraged as they tasted the bitterness of defeat, following the Republican triumph in mid-term elections. Obama...

LONDON, Danny Kemp - A British woman radicalised by online sermons from an Al-Qaeda cleric linked to the air cargo bomb plot was jailed for life on Wednesday for trying to kill a lawmaker in revenge...

BAGHDAD- Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday his country welcomed a Saudi proposal to host talks for resolving a deadlock over forming a government, nearly eight months after polls. "It is a...

BEIRUT- The Syrian, Saudi and Iranian ambassadors to Lebanon met on Tuesday in a bid to contain rising tensions over the fate of a UN-backed probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri....

RIYADH, Paul Handley- Saudi women activists expressed outrage and confusion on Tuesday at a new fatwa challenging a government initiative to allow women to work as cashiers in supermarkets and...

BAGHDAD, Khalil Murshadi- Grieving Catholics in Baghdad marked All Saints Day in mourning on Monday for 46 Christians killed during a hostage drama with Al-Qaeda gunmen that ended in an assault by...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Palestinian children are coming under increasing attack by a handful of violent, extremist Jewish settlers, a rights group said on Monday in a report on the human cost of...

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- An alleged Saudi bombmaker has emerged as the main suspect behind the two parcel bombs sent from Yemen, a US official said, as a Gulf airline source said one of the parcels...