Joint fight with Arabs against Kadafi spurs Berber hopes of equality in Libya

Before the Libyan uprising this year, Salah, a proud Arab, never would have approved if his sister had decided to marry a Berber, a long-...

Fierce fighting in western and eastern Libya

Fighting broke out on two fronts Saturday in Libya, as rebels tried to gain ground against entrenched government forces in the western...

Syria security forces attack protesters across the country

Security forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad met antigovernment protests throughout the country with violence Friday in defiance...

U.S. formally recognizes rebel group as Libya's government

The Obama administration formally recognized a rebel group as Libya's government, giving the forces struggling to overthrow Moammar Kadafi's...

Libyan faithfully tends graves of foreign World War II dead

Every morning, Salah Fatour is at his post with his worn rake and wheelbarrow, tending the garden of the dead.

Elite units under an office of Maliki's linked to secret jail where detainees face torture, Iraq officials say

Elite units controlled by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office are ignoring members of parliament and the government's own...

Egypt fires more than 600 top police officers

Egypt fired more than 600 high-ranking police officers Wednesday in a purge aimed at appeasing thousands of antigovernment protesters in...

Libya rebels desperately short of funds

In early April, Mazin Ramadan left his American wife and two children in Seattle and flew to this Libyan rebel stronghold to help the...

In Egypt, post-revolution harmony turns into acrimony

Stock prices are sliding, protesters are clamoring, generals are fuming and the once-respected prime minister is maneuvering to hang on to...

Panetta signals a new tone on U.S.-led wars

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta carried an unmistakable message on his first overseas trip since taking office this month: One way or...

U.S. accuses Syria of unleashing mob attacks on U.S., French embassies

The Obama administration angrily accused Syrian authorities of instigating attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Damascus to divert...

Israel law targets boycott campaigns

Israel's right-leaning parliament approved a hotly disputed law Monday that will penalize those who organize or publicly endorse political...

Panetta presses Iraq for decision on U.S. troops

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Iraq's leaders Monday that they must decide soon whether to ask for U.S. troops to remain beyond...

Opposition voices absent from Syrian dialogue

Syrian politicians, intellectuals and clergy were given an unusual opportunity to criticize the country's security apparatus on national...

Panetta: Iranian weapons used to attack Americans in Iraq

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that weapons supplied by Iran are behind a rash of attacks against American forces in Iraq,...

Fearful Syrians use coded language to mask protest activities

At home in San Fernando in early June, Hadia Al-Abdullah was watching an online video of a women's silent protest in Damascus, Syria,...

Israel largely fends off pro-Palestinian 'fly-in' activists

Israel on Friday largely fended off a planned "fly-in" protest by hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, who had vowed to take commercial...

Thousands of Syrians protest in Hama against Assad

Syrian protesters tossed roses onto the vehicle of a surprise visitor to Hama: the American ambassador, who could be seen driving through...

Syrian activists and security forces brace for protests

Syrian authorities have intensified a campaign to detain the same opposition activists with whom they recently vowed to begin a dialogue, as...

Egyptians race to capture the spirit of Tahrir Square

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Libyan rebels said to advance in west

Even as Libyan rebels reported driving government forces from another mountain town in western Libya on Wednesday, Moammar Kadafi's regime...

Human-rights groups urge action on Syria

A trio of major human-rights groups on Wednesday sounded separate alarms about the violent crackdown against the pro-democracy movement in...

In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood showing cracks in its solidarity

The Muslim Brotherhood has expelled five of its youth members in a purge signaling that Egypt's most potent political force is unwilling...

U.S. willing to leave 10,000 troops in Iraq past year's end, officials say

The White House is prepared to keep as many as 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, amid growing concern that the planned...

Linked bombings kill 36 in Iraq town

A car bomb and a smaller explosive device detonated Tuesday morning close to a parking area for municipal employees in a town outside...