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Three leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and the movement’s former arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate trials on Sunday.
Egypt’s deputy prime minister will propose a way out of a bloody confrontation between the security forces and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Failure to renew an arms embargo on Syria could hamper US-Russian peace talks with the worn-torn nation.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan held blunt talks with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad this weekend but appeared to be making little headway.
Over 30 Syrian civilians have been killed in fighting as a new constitution is set to see Bashar al-Assad rule until 2028.
Syria says it might allow Arab monitors to stay for another month on its peacekeeping mission, but those against Bashar al-Assad want UN intervention.
The Muslim Brotherhood says it is leading Egypt’s election, which would give the nation’s oldest Islamist group a powerful parliamentary platform.
Running battles have flared in central Cairo even after Egyptian military police reinforced riot police guarding the interior ministry.
The US and other countries walked out of a speech by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to the UN after he attacked the "arrogant powers" of the West.
The popular protests against Arab autocrats that have churned the region for three months are the authentic birth pangs of a new Middle East.
Al-Qaeda militants in the mountains of Yemen posting bombs to America? Order more drone strikes or send in the Marines. If only it were that simple.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basked in a rock-star welcome from Hezbollah’s Shi’ite loyalists on Wednesday.
Iran’s rulers are tensing for a new trial of strength with protesters on Sunday.
United States President Barack Obama’s high-priority Middle East peace drive has run into predictable quicksand.
Iran’s hardline rulers are set to punish reformists linked to the boldest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Grappling with instability is nothing new to organisers, audiences and performers at cultural events in Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a rare public appearance, welcomed five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel on Wednesday.
Israel seems content to keep Iran and the rest of the world guessing uneasily about whether and when it might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to…
Lebanon’s army stepped up patrols on Tuesday as part of a drive to restore order after a week of fighting between Hezbollah fighters and pro-government gunmen. Hezbollah, the…
