A Saudi court has sentenced 11 men to up to 15 years in prison for membership of a cell linked to al-Qaeda that planned to attack U.S. forces in Kuwait and state-owned Saudi oil giant Aramco, Saudi media reported on Wednesday. The 11 were among thousands
Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Refugee Agency in Lebanon a group of Sudanese men, women, and children have been standing for two weeks. They are refugees who ran away from Darfur to Lebanon several years ago and have since then been c
Tunisian Central Bank Governor Mustapha Kamel al-Nabli will be sacked due to disagreements over economic policy, the spokesman for the presidency said on Wednesday,a move that could alarm investors already jittery after last year’s revolution.
Gunmen kill several employees of Al-Ikhbariya, south of capital, a day after president said Syria "in a state of war".
International peace envoy Kofi Annan confirmed on Wednesday that an action group on Syria will meet at ministerial level at the United Nations in Geneva on Saturday. In a statement, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy said he had invited fore
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is pleased so far with commitments made by Egypt’s Islamist president-elect, but will reserve judgment on his government until it is up and running. Speaking to
Tunisian parliamentarians are pushing for a no-confidence vote in the Islamist-led government, whose divisive decision to extradite Muammar Qaddafi’s prime minister, has caused the country’s deepest political crisis since last year’s elections. Tun
دعا رئيس الوزراء العراقي نوري المالكي إلى انتخابات مبكرة بهدف إنهاء الأزمة السياسية في البلاد. جاء ذلك فيما اعتبرت القائمة العراقية دعوات ا
نفى محمد اشتية عضو الوفد التفاوضي الفلسطيني عضو اللجنة المركزية لحركة فتح صحة الأنباء عند تحديد موعد للقاء بين الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس