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ALGIERS, Algeria - Two people were killed in Algeria on Saturday when a suicide bomber targeted a police headquarters in a town 70km (45 miles) east of the capital, a local security source told Reuters.
Al-Qaeda's north African branch frequently...
GAZA - An Israeli air strike wounded a Palestinian gunman in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday, and remains were found of another man killed in an earlier attack, medics in the Hamas Islamist controlled territory said.
An Israeli military...
CAIRO - South Sudan, already recognized by Israel, will forge relations with the Jewish state and hopes to help bring peace to the Middle East, the new state's vice president said in remarks received on Friday.
Riek Machar, speaking to Alhurra...
MILAN - European wheat prices were flat on Friday as traders awaited the results of Egypt's tender in the afternoon, although with little hope that wheat of European origin would win a share as prices were not competitive compared to ...
AMMAN, Jordan - Syrian security forces shot dead at least 20 protesters on Friday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country in the biggest protests so far against President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad, facing the greatest...
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian police armed with batons clashed with hundreds of protesters shouting "the people want the reform of the regime" as the crowds attempted to march in downtown Amman on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
Security...
KABUL, Afghanistan - The first US troops have left Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama's planned drawdown of about a third of the 100,000 US forces there during the next year.
Facing growing political opposition to the nearly decade-...
NEW YORK--A set of 2,000-year-old sarcophagi and other Egyptian antiquities were smuggled into the United States by a black-market artifacts ring and recovered by US law enforcement agents, officials said on Thursday.
Charges unsealed in Brooklyn...
ATHENS--Greece's Piraeus Bank said on Friday it had received an indication of interest in its Egyptian banking unit from Standard Chartered with which it was exploring a wider strategic relationship.
Piraeus bank said in a statement that a...
NEW YORK--Eight year-old Mustafa Akyol was looking at a book in his grandfather's library when he saw something that shocked him: a passage advising parents to beat impious children.
Now, Akyol is a journalist in Turkey, and he hopes the Arab...
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