Syria accused of using chemical weapons last week
WASHINGTON — The ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republican is urging a “surgical” U.S. airstrike against Syr...
Foreigners told to avoid country
CAIRO — Heshmat Youssef used to make a decent living sailing foreign tourists down Egypt’s Nile River. Since political unrest flared, bus...
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus today, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had kil...
Rebels say 100 killed
BEIRUT — Syrian regime forces fired intense artillery and rocket barrages today on the eastern suburbs of Damascus amid a fierce government offensiv...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The United States has placed unprecedented sanctions on an Islamic school in northwest Pakistan for allegedly training and financing fighters from a...
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities today continued their crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies by arresting two more high-profile Islamist figures, while official...
Egypt continues with crackdown
CAIRO — Egypt today announced the arrest of the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a...
CAIRO — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is on retrial for the killings of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster, could be r...
PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius was indicted today on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of the double-amputee Olympi...
Son of spiritual leader is killed
CAIRO — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday that a son of its spiritual leader was killed during fierce clashes in downtown Cairo, ...
