Palestinian officials voiced concern about possible concessions by the Vatican ahead of talks on Tuesday between Israel and the Holy See on the status of Catholic Church property in Jerusalem. The Palestinians said a copy of an alleged draf
Ibrahim al-Sonosi, the deputy of Sudan’s veteran Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, said he was freed on Monday after nearly six months in jail for “trying to destroy the regime.” Sonosi, who is over 70 years old, and anothe
The United Nations envoy to Iraq said on Monday he is “concerned” that violence may break out if the relocation of Iranian exiles to a new camp near Baghdad does not proceed as planned. Under a December 25 deal between the U.N. and Iraq
Syrian rebels said on Monday they had briefly seized control of a strategic army base and threatened to fire its surface-to-air missiles at President Bashar al-Assad’s palace, but were forced to withdraw by an army counter-attack. With the help of 22 s
Syrian government forces renew their attack on the city of Homs as international mediator Kofi Annan says civilians are trapped there.
The United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to produce an agreement on reopening NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday. “The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short
محكم جزائرية تقضي بسجن طبيب نفسي 20 عاما لادانته بالتخابر بعد عرضه معلومات عن تدريب انتحاريين في العراق على السفارة القطرية في الجزائر.
Millions of Yemenis are being left to starve due to lack of food and water since the change of government which has pushed the country's political turmoil towards a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Nearly half the country’s population has been a
Two of the "Ocampo Four" accused of masterminding post-election violence in 2007 are likely stand trial in March 2013.
Libya has put four International Criminal Court (ICC) envoys in “preventive” detention in prison for 45 days while investigating an alleged threat to national security, a judicial source said on Monday. “A decision was made to put the