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JERUSALEM — Israeli officials say Egypt is violating their 1979 peace treaty by deploying tanks in the demilitarized Sinai desert.
The officials said Tuesday they have made their objections known to the Egyptians directly and through American...
ADDIS ABABA — Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's long-time ruler who held tight control over this East African country but was a major US counter-terrorism ally, died of an undisclosed illness after not being seen in public for weeks,...
Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula warned the Egyptian military on Wednesday against cracking down on jihadis and claimed they were not behind a sneak attack earlier this month that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers.
In a statement posted on a...
BEIRUT — With gunmen standing in the background, a Syrian rebel video purported Tuesday to show their latest captive: a lone Lebanese Shia suspected of links to pro-regime Hizbullah whose abduction appears part of a wider strategy shift to...
DAMASCUS — Syrian state-run TV says a bomb has exploded near a fuel truck outside a hotel where UN observers are staying in the capital, Damascus.
The TV says Wednesday's explosion wounded at least three people. None of them were...
Egyptian Cabinet ministers and World Bank officials have signed off on a US$200 million project aimed at creating 250,000 jobs after more than a year of slow economic growth.
The World Bank says the investments will be spent on financing for job...
Syria’s prime minister who defected to the opposition said Tuesday that Bashar Assad’s regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side.
The comments by Riad Hijab were his...
TRIPOLI — In a ceremony late Wednesday, Libya's first elected assembly took over power from the transitional council that has ruled the country since last year's uprising against longtime dictator Muammar Qadhafi.
The ceremony marked...
JERUSALEM — Human rights lawyers say Israel's Justice Ministry is making it tough for Palestinians and migrants to file suit in an Israeli court.
Under an amended regulation taking effect 1 September, petitioners must include their...
BAGHDAD — At least 22,300 Iraqis who fled to Syria several years ago have streamed home in the past three weeks, United Nations officials in Baghdad said Tuesday, preparing for more refugees fleeing the escalating Syrian civil war.
The...
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