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Four more members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have decided to close their embassies in Syria over its violent crackdown…

Huge rallies showed support for Syria's president on Thursday despite a new "massacre" report and a refugee exodus to Turkey, as a…

KABUL — Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases…

BEIJING — Ambitious Chinese Communist Party leadership contender Bo Xilai has been sacked from his post as head of the…

KABUL — An Afghan man who emerged ablaze from a stolen pickup truck as an aircraft carrying US Defense Secretary…

LONDON — Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar al-Assad and his wife show the…

Ultra-conservative Salafis in Yemen have formed their first political party, urging recently elected President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi to apply Islamic…

U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has received a response from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to his mediation proposals for ending…

Chinese lawmakers on Wednesday passed into law controversial changes that give the police powers to detain some suspects for up…

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Republican Rick Santorum won a pair of crucial Deep South primaries on Tuesday, taking control of the…