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  Two strong earthquakes hit northwest Iran in quick succession on Saturday, injuring dozens of people in scores of villages and sending panicked residents…

The United Nations said Friday that 25,000 people have been displaced in Sudan's Darfur region after unrest that began 10…

An Alawite film director was assassinated near his home on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria's General Cinema Institute said on Tuesday. "Treacherous hands…

  Total foreign and domestic investments in Arab states rose slightly last year despite widespread unrest, the Kuwait-based Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corp. said…

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Monday ruled out sending troops to Mali, where the embattled government has lost…

Five gunmen who killed 16 Egyptian guards near the border with Israel before crossing into the Jewish state in an…

A Palestinian man was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike on Rafah in the Gaza Strip on…

Saudi King Abdullah invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders to be held this month…

  The interim head of Egypt's Coptic church has expressed unhappiness over the composition of the country's new Cabinet, with…

  Defected Syrian general Manaf Tlass held talks with Turkish foreign ministry officials during a surprise visit to Ankara, a…