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BEIRUT — Syrian army defectors said they launched several attacks Wednesday on President Bashar al-Assad's military bases near the capital Damascus, including one on a Syrian intelligence facility — the latest in stepped-up...
Human Rights Watch has called on Egypt to release a prominent blogger detained by military prosecutors.
In a statement Tuesday, the New York-based group called the detention of Alaa Abd El Fattah "a blatant effort to target one of the most...
NEW YORK - Police cleared New York's Zuccotti Park early Tuesday so that sanitation crews could clean the site Occupy Wall Street protesters have inhabited for two months, while in Berkeley, California, activists planned another attempt at...
The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria in four days and warned it could face sanctions if it does not end its bloody crackdown against anti-government protesters. The decision was a symbolic blow to a nation that prides itself on being a...
An Egyptian security official says a Canadian tourist who was caught up in a family feud has died of his wounds.
The official says 24-year old Jeff Francois, who lived in Cairo and was an employee of the Institute of Canada, suffered respiratory...
GENEVA — The UN human rights office is calling on Egyptian authorities to release a prominent blogger and others imprisoned for exercising free speech.
The military trial and jailing of blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah and a hunger strike by his...
Egypt's antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 am on 11 November, 2011.
The authority's head Mustafa Amin said in a...
BEIRUT — Angry Syrian protesters pelted a group of opposition leaders with eggs outside Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday, preventing them from entering the building for talks with the organization's chief about the violence...
GENEVA — Syria’s nearly eight-month-old uprising has cost at least 3500 civilian lives, the United Nations reported Tuesday, in a tally based on figures gathered outside the country.
That includes dozens killed since last week’s...
SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni official said Monday that security forces have killed six militants and injured many others in fighting in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of the southern province of Abyan.
The official said that heavy fighting...
