CAIRO: Hearing their bright-eyed talk of a peaceful new Egyptian revolution as they sit around a cafe table, you might dismiss Mahmoud Badr and the other...
CAIRO: Jon Stewart took his politically engaged American satire to Cairo on Friday, appearing on a show hosted by the man known as "Egypt's Jon...
CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood staged a show of strength in Cairo on Friday, rallying a huge crowd to demonstrate support for President Mohamed Mursi -...
CAIRO/TUNIS: Two years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was mobbed by adoring crowds in Arab capitals and Turkey seemed set to expand its trade and influence across...
BEIRUT/CAIRO: Sunni Muslim preachers condemned Iran and its "Satanic" Shi'ite allies in Friday sermons after a battle in Syria that has inflamed sectarian...
LONDON: The April Fool is dead. Or at least the gentle jester of the common folk has metastised into a corporate colossus controlled by global marketing...
LONDON: Lakhdar Brahimi’s holiday truce may have saved Syrian lives Friday, as government troops and rebels drew breath on several fronts – though...
CAIRO: Egypt's anxious week of waiting for a president, a week marked by street protests and angry accusations between rivals of subverting the new...
LONDON: A provocative photograph of a near-naked young woman appears among emails apparently sent to Syrian President Bashar Assad and hacked by opposition...
LONDON: A provocative photograph of a near-naked young woman appears among e-mails apparently sent to Syrian President Bashar Assad and hacked by opposition...
LONDON: "World, please help us!" has been a refrain of Syrians under siege by their own government in Homs, Deraa and other cities. So far, though,...
CAIRO: Egypt's army chief, seeking to defuse street protests that have left 37 dead, promised a swifter handover to civilian rule but failed to convince...
TRIPOLI: Libya’s wartime rebel prime minister said his country faces a lengthy and dangerous power vacuum where foreign powers may exploit rival...
TRIPOLI: Despite continued gunfire and explosions near Tripoli Sunday, Libyan officials and fighters said a bloody local dispute that has strained nerves in...
TRIPOLI: The suit says it all, even if Libya’s Islamist military chief is guarded in talking of his own ambitions as war gives way to politics after the...
SIRTE, Libya: In the shattered Libyan town of Sirte, the hometown where Moammar Gadhafi met his end last month, the mood was grim on the eve of one of...
OSLO: Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize Friday to three indomitable female campaigners...
LONDON: As Norway mourns the carnage wrought by a self-styled crusader against Islam, global news media face hard questions about their haste to point fingers...
DEAUVILLE, France: The latest Group of Eight summit was “historic,” the moment for the great powers to rally their wealth and arms behind the Arab people and...