BEIRUT: Nearly a week after a cease-fire took effect, Syrian troops pounded a rebel stronghold Wednesday as the country's foreign minister met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing during the latest round of talks aimed at preventing the truce (...)
BEIRUT: The Syrian regime widened shelling attacks on opposition strongholds Tuesday, activists said, targeting a second town in a new sign that a UN-brokered cease-fire is quickly unraveling despite the presence of foreign observers.
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SHVUT RACHEL: Israel has legalized one of the oldest and largest of the unsanctioned settler enclaves dotting the West Bank, a step denounced by the Palestinians and Israeli activists as a show of bad faith ahead of talks next week between the (...)
RAMALLAH: A Gaza-born woman recently sneaked into her native land through a smugglers' tunnel because the legal route was blocked. A car mechanic who settled in the West Bank 15 years ago to raise a family lives in fear of deportation because his ID (...)
HERZLIYA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned that time is running out for a Mideast peace deal and urged Israel to make goodwill gestures, including easing its blockade of Gaza, to help lure the Palestinians back to negotiations.
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HERZLIYA: Capping a day of strident warnings by Israeli officials about the dangers posed by Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said that the world is increasingly ready to consider a military strike against Iran if economic sanctions don't halt (...)
CAIRO (AP) — Rival Palestinian leaders on Thursday held their first detailed talks on reconciliation since the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip more than four years ago, declaring they made progress toward sharing power but (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Athletes and sports programs in Libya were woefully neglected during Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade rule. With Gadhafi's regime toppled last month, Libya's athletes and sports officials are hoping for a better (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya won't turn into an extremist Islamic country, its interim leader assured the European Union's top diplomat on Saturday, adding that the formation of a new government of experts is to be completed in the coming week.
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TRIPOLI: Moammar Qaddafi's intelligence service killed Nadia Seif's husband for plotting to assassinate the dictator, seized her villa, then held her for seven months in a tiny cell where she says she was raped twice by a guard.
The 59-year-old (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya — Disarming former Libyan rebels could take months and weapons will not be taken by force, Libya's new prime minister said in an interview broadcast Friday, signaling a shift from previous pledges of quick action.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The release of an Israeli soldier by Hamas as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel is reshaping complex regional ties, mostly in favor of Gaza's once isolated Islamic militant rulers.
The swap, mediated by Egypt, has (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: A spokesman for Tripoli's new military council says the former rebels know where ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi is hiding, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed.
Anis Sharif says Gadhafi is still in (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: Qaddafi's spokesman told AP Qaddafi is in Libya and leading the fight against rebels.
Libyan rebels battled forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi on the streets of Tripoli Thursday, with the clatter of machine gunfire echoing through (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: A defiant Moammar Qaddafi vowed Wednesday to fight on "until victory or martyrdom," as rebel fighters tried to end scattered attacks by regime loyalists in the nervous capital.
The rebels say they have now taken control of nearly (...)
WADI EL-HAI, Libya — Libya's rebels on Saturday fought with regime troops for control of a key mountain town that is a strategic gateway on the road to Tripoli in an intensified western offensive aiming to push toward Muammar Gadhafi's stronghold in (...)
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CAIRO — One of Egypt's ruling generals took great pains this week to reassure his American audience: the military-led caretaker government has no intention of mending ties with Iran, a longtime foe and regional rival.
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CAIRO: One of Egypt's ruling generals took great pains this week to reassure his American audience: the military-led caretaker government has no intention of mending ties with Iran, a longtime foe and regional rival.
But once an elected (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP): Towering above the Libyan capital's coastline, the sleek silver Marriott Hotel opened three months ago as the latest symbol of the North African nation's oil-fueled investment boom. Ten days after its Feb. 15 opening, however, (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: Forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi have shelled a rebel supply route and a besieged opposition stronghold in western Libya, even as the embattled Libyan leader's international isolation deepened with a demand by Turkey that he resign (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: Libyans shouting for revenge have buried Moammar Gadhafi's second youngest son to the thundering sound of anti-aircraft fire, as South Africa warned that the NATO bombing that killed him would only bring more violence.
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TRIPOLI, Libya: Angry mobs have attacked Western embassies and a U.N. office in Tripoli after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi's family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader's second youngest son and three grandchildren, ages six months (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP): Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli on Saturday, but his youngest son and three grandchildren under the age of 12 were killed, a government spokesman said.
The strike, which came hours after (...)
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said early Sunday. Hours later, Qaddafi's forces shelled a besieged rebel port in a (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Libyans who have fled civil war in their homeland now live in limbo in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, worried about relatives left behind, struggling as money runs out and wondering if they'll ever be able to go home.
Some (...)