DAMASCUS- Kurdish activist Mahmud Safo, a member of a banned leftist party in Syria, has been arrested by security forces in the north of the country, a Syrian rights group said on Tuesday. The...

YANGON- Myanmar's opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday it would boycott polls expected later this year, after the country's military rulers introduced a controversial new election...

WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden called Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Monday to wish him a speedy recovery from surgery in Germany, the White House said. "The vice president called...

JERUSALEM, Patrick Moser- Israel on Monday curbed travel from the West Bank and access to Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound as Jews began to celebrate Passover holidays amid raised...

JERUSALEM, Charly Wegman - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has infuriated Washington with plans to expand settlements in east Jerusalem, on Sunday accused the Palestinians of blocking...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson - Two big wins for Barack Obama at home and abroad -- a historic health care bill and a new arms treaty with Russia -- have injected sudden momentum into a presidency...

CAIRO- President Hosni Mubarak is to return to Egypt on Saturday, three weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany, the official news agency MENA reported. "President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak is...

CAMP PENDLETON, Tori Richards- A US military judge Friday denied a bid to dismiss charges against a former squadron leader accused in the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians after a roadside bomb...

SIRTE, Joseph Eid- Arab leaders gathered in Libya on Friday ahead of a weekend summit amid a deepening crisis with Israel over its settlement policy in annexed east Jerusalem. Arab League chief...