CAIRO- The opposition Muslim Brotherhood has confirmed it will take part in next month's legislative elections in Egypt, the official MENA news agency reported on Saturday. The group plans to...

SIRTE- Arab League leaders voiced their support for Sudan Saturday, but made no mention of the troubled Middle East peace process at the end of a summit meeting in Libya. The Arab League "affirms...

BEIRUT- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah briefly came out of hiding on Friday to plant a tree as part of his Shiite militant party's campaign to encourage the Lebanese to go green. Nasrallah, who...

RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr- A top aide to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday that it was impossible to have a "serious peace process" with the current Israeli government. The...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The world community faces an uphill battle to help prevent Yemen from becoming a failed state like Somalia and from allowing Al-Qaeda to threaten major oil shipping...

UNITED NATIONS- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday strongly reaffirmed UN backing for a special international tribunal investigating the assassination of the late Lebanese prime minister...

NUBA, Samih Chahine- A Palestinian woman described on Wednesday how she was "humiliated" when Israeli soldiers filmed her in detention, one of them belly dancing close to her as she stood blindfolded...

WASHINGTON- The United States stepped up efforts Tuesday to press Arab ministers who will meet later this week to back continued Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which risk derailing over Jewish...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- A Pakistani-American was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his botched car bomb attempt in New York's famed Times Square, but in a chilling statement warned that...