RIYADH, Paul Handley- An "inept" United States cannot fix Afghanistan's problems and should simply focus on "chasing the terrorists" there, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said...

CAIRO- An Egyptian rights group demanded on Friday the release of nine adherents of the Ahmadiyya sect detained under a controversial emergency law extended by parliament this week. The Egyptian...

GAZA CITY, Adel Zaanoun- Palestinians marked on Friday the 62nd anniversary of the Naqba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation, demanding the right of return of hundreds of thousands driven from...

LONDON- Britain's former energy minister Ed Miliband will be a candidate to lead the opposition Labour party, pitting him against his older brother, former foreign secretary David, reports said...

ANKARA, Anna Smolchenko- The leaders of Russia and Turkey said Wednesday that the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas should not be excluded from peace efforts in the Middle East, sparking Israel's...

BEIRUT- A Lebanese military court handed 31 alleged members of the Al-Qaeda-inspired militant group Fatah al-Islam prison terms of up to 15 years for terrorism, a judicial source said on Wednesday....

JERUSALEM- Amnesty International called on Israeli authorities on Wednesday to end what it called "harassment" of an Arab human rights activist held on suspicion of spying for the Lebanese Hezbollah...

RAMALLAH- US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Israel and the Palestinians should "refrain from all provocative measures" towards each other, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported....

CAIRO, Christophe de Roquefeuil- Egypt's parliament on Tuesday extended the state of emergency in place for three decades by a further two years despite sharp criticism by rights groups and...