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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met on Wednesday in Cairo with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal for talks on the formation of…

Syria will exhaust its foreign currency reserves in three to five months, sparking crisis in an economy reeling from sanctions…

Iraqi security forces on Wednesday arrested the head of Ansar al-Sunnah, a Sunni insurgent group said to be linked to…

Egypt on Wednesday wraps up two-stage elections for the upper house of Parliament, which caps a landmark legislative poll that…

An international rights group urged the US, where Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying, to probe his forces'…

Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10…

A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria's extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind…

Palestinian protesters hurled stones and shoes at police escorting Jewish and Christian visitors inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in…

Separatists who had vowed to mark Tuesday's presidential vote as a day of "civil disobedience" have seized half of the…

Syrian forces on Tuesday blitzed the flashpoint city of Homs and opened fire to disperse daring protesters in the capital,…