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France has started helping rebel-held parts of Syria so these "liberated zones" can run themselves and is considering the possibility…

Libya has said that Mauritania handed over Abdallah al-Senussi, chief of intelligence under late Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi on Wednesday.…

KABUL — Afghanistan said Wednesday it had arrested or sacked hundreds of Afghan soldiers over attacks on NATO troops, trying…

AMMAN — Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian Army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as…

Algeria's new Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal took office Tuesday promising to push ahead with reforms four months after parliamentary elections,…

The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked on Tuesday by Syrian government loyalists for what…

JERUSALEM — Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday and…

RIYADH — A group of international donors pledged US$6.4 billion of aid to Yemen on Tuesday to help the impoverished country rebuild after it…

  A Bahrain court on Tuesday upheld jail terms against 13 leading opposition figures, including seven facing life in prison, over charges…

Hizbullah's secretary general Hassan Nasrallah threatened Monday to target vital, "non-military" targets in Israel if Lebanon was attacked, and characterized…