US president tells troops in North Carolina he is proud to see them back home after nearly nine years fighting in Iraq.
Leon Panetta tells US troops they are winning and says 2011 marks a "turning point" for conflict-ravaged country.
Voters flocked to polls in nine electorates, where Islamists hope to maintain lead and liberals aim to gain ground.
Activists say reprisal ambush in Hama province left eight soldiers dead after government forces killed five civilians.
US President Barack Obama marks the end of the Iraq war by praising the "extraordinary achievement" of US troops in a conflict he once called dumb.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged world powers on Wednesday to act “in the name of humanity” against Syria’s crackdown on dissent, as a U.S. official likened the Damascus regime to a “dead man walking.” Activists said Syrian forces kil
The daughter of slain Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi has asked the International Criminal Court if it will probe the killing of her father and her brother, her lawyer said Wednesday. Aisha Qaddafi’s lawyer Nick Kaufman said he had written to ICC pros
الرئيس التونسي محمد المنصف المرزوقي قرر تكليف محمد الجبالي أمين عام حزب النهضة الإسلامي بتشكيل الحكومة التونسية الجديدة.
The Islamist Hamas movement on Wednesday marked its 24th anniversary, with its prime minister Ismail Haniyeh vowing to continue the “resistance” until the end of Israel’s occupation. “The resistance and the armed struggle are the wa
قالت الهيئة العامة للثورة السورية إن عدد القتلى المدنيين الذين سقطوا برصاص قوات الأمن بلغ 35, منهم عشرة في حماة التي تتعرض لحملة اقتحامات واس