RIYADH, Paul Handley- The Saudi and Syrian leaders met in Riyadh on Sunday as tensions rise in Lebanon over the fate of the UN probe into the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. The...

AMMAN- Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday affirmed his country's "total support" for stability in Iraq and the unity of its people during a meeting with visiting premier Nuri al-Maliki, a palace...

JERUSALEM- A planned October 21 summit in Paris between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been postponed, the...

MARRAKECH- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called Saturday for global governance to face challenges like the more than 200 million international migrants made more vulnerable by the economic...

BEIRUT, Rana Moussaoui- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought through his controversial visit to Lebanon this week to send a clear message to Washington that Tehran is a key player in the...

GAZA CITY- Hamas on Friday accused Cairo of planning to bar a number of the Palestinian Islamist movement's leaders from crossing into Egypt on their way to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi...

VATICAN CITY- Christian presence in the Middle East is a "necessity" and keeping Christians there is "an Islamic duty", the secretary of the Lebanese national committee for Muslim-Christian dialogue...

JERUSALEM- Israel's armed forces chief Gabi Ashkenazi was on Thursday asked to testify for a second time before an Israeli committee probing the navy's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a...

VATICAN CITY- Israel has "a special responsibility" for its Palestinian neighbours, Israeli rabbi David Rosen told a major Vatican conference of Catholic bishops on the Middle East on Wednesday....