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UN observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Crown Prince Nayef, the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia's fierce crackdown crushing Al-Qaeda's branch in the country after the 9/11 attacks in the US and then rose to become next in line...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....
Doctors used a defibrillator twice on Hosni Mubarak when they could not find a pulse Monday, the latest health crisis for the ousted president since he was sentenced to life and moved to a prison hospital nine days ago, security officials said.
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BEIRUT— Syrian troops attacked a rebel-held town in the center of the country with helicopter gunships on Monday and shelled other restive areas, activists said.
The aerial assault targeted the strategic river crossing town of Rastan that has...
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's president on Sunday night declared a state of emergency in a western state where sectarian tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have unleashed deadly violence.
It is the first time Thein Sein has invoked the...
An Egyptian security official says former President Hosni Mubarak has been slipping in and out of consciousness, more than a week after he was transferred to a hospital inside a Cairo prison to serve his 25-year sentence.
The official says Mubarak...
A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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Human rights organizations called Thursday for a firm stance against the "intentional" harassment of women during protests.
The organizations said in a statement that the amount of sexual harassment and violence against female...
BAGHDAD — For residents of Azamiya, once one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, the opening of a department store selling party dresses, imported men's suits and designer label perfumes is a sign that a better future could lie...
