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Islamist activists raided the last working bar in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on Monday, smashing bottles and…

JOHANNESBURG — South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near…

Images of smiling Kurdish MPs hugging rebels, rifles slung over their shoulders, at a remote roadblock in Turkey's mountainous southeast…

Islamic extremists said Sunday they have executed an Algerian diplomat who was kidnapped during their takeover of northern Mali, according…

Twin bombs exploded near a tightly guarded government compound in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, state media said, as…

Egypt Independent met with Ameur Larayedh, Tunisia's Ennahda political bureau head, constitution-writing assembly member and well-known moderate, who returned to Tunisia…

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has defended his controversial visit to Iran, saying on Friday that he had used this…

  Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group…

South African prosecutors on Thursday charged 270 mine workers with the murder of 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police,…

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Abou Ahmad has been fighting in Tripoli’s Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh since he was a teenager.…