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Kandahar -- Afghan troops clashed with the Taliban in the southern city of Kandahar for a second day on Sunday after insurgents launched coordinated attacks with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide raids against government buildings.
The death...
Amman -- Syrian forces have entered the southern town of Tafas near the city of Deraa in the Hauran Plain, residents said.
At least eight tanks moved into the town of about 30,000 people around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Sunday. Residents said they heard...
At least five people were killed in a sectarian clash in Egypt on Saturday over a Christian woman who allegedly had converted to Islam, according to officials.
Interfaith relationships often cause tension in Egypt, where Christians make up...
Benghazi -- Rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi said on Saturday they have reached an agreement with Italy to supply them with weapons, but the former colonial power denied the report.
Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga, spokesman for the rebel...
Tunis -- Tunisian police wielding batons and firing teargas scuffled on Saturday with hundreds of protesters demanding the departure of the government and angry at a heavy handed response to demonstrations this week.
The new protests in the North...
An escaped Egyptian prisoner was recaptured as he fled a police ambush disguised as a woman in the Suez canal city of Ismailia, security sources said on Saturday.
Adel Mohammed Dasouqi, 35, escaped from Cairo's Abu Zaabal prison earlier this...
A court has annulled a 2006 deal to sell Egypt's historic Omar Effendi department store chain to a Saudi investor, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday, after critics long argued it was sold too cheaply.
Omar Effendi, a well-known chain...
Sanaa -- Youth groups leading protests to oust Yemen's long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Gulf Arab states Saturday to withdraw a plan which has failed so far to ease him from power.
Yemen's main opposition said Friday the...
Climate change cut global wheat and corn output by more than 3 percent over the past three decades compared to growth projections without a rise in temperatures, a study found on Friday. The impacts translated into up to 20 percent higher average...
United Nations -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that Israel should not withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority following its unity deal with Hamas.
"The Secretary-General...
