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A wave of violence in Iraq that has raised fears of a return to all-out sectarian strife killed more than 1,000 people in May, the United Nations said.
Over the course of the month, 1,045 people were killed and 2,397 wounded in unrest across the...
DOHA - Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Shiite group Hezbollah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni insurgents in Syria.
Qaradawi, a...
ISTANBUL - Protestors and riot police clashed for a second day in Istanbul on Saturday, a day after an environmental protest flared into a massive outcry against Turkey's Islamist-rooted government.
The unrest, which has spread to other cities,...
Iran has amended its internationally condemned law on stoning convicted adulterers to death to allow judges to impose a different form of execution, according to the revision seen by AFP on Thursday.
The controversial practice, in which stones are...
Gulf Arab states will consider placing Lebanon's Shiite party Hezbollah, which is openly involved in the Syrian conflict, on its terror list, Al-Rai daily quoted highly placed diplomats on Thursday as saying.
Bahrain will ask foreign ministers...
Whatever their social or political differences, Cairo's residents agree on one thing: the traffic is a nightmare.
Increasingly desperate to escape the gridlock and pollution of the Egyptian capital, more people are now using the Nile for their...
TUNIS — Three young European women with topless protest group Femen were arrested on Wednesday after baring their breasts in central Tunis, a first in the Arab world, an AFP journalist reported.
Standing outside the main courthouse, the women...
The first professional sumo wrestler from either Africa or the Arab world was given a boost Wednesday, winning promotion to the sport's second highest division in Japan.
The Japan Sumo Association promoted 21-year-old Egyptian Abdelrahman Ahmed...
Egyptian restoration experts have managed to remove graffiti from an ancient monument after it had been defaced by a Chinese tourist, the antiquities department said on Tuesday.
Authorities had assigned a committee to assess the damage and concluded...
Violence in Iraq has killed more than 500 people in May, AFP figures showed on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain a wave of unrest that has raised fears of new sectarian conflict.
And the UN envoy to Iraq urged the country's leaders to...
