A Tunisian court sentenced Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to life Wednesday for his role in the deaths of protesters during last year's uprising which toppled the veteran dictator and inspired the Arab Sprin

The United States may not allow the renewal of the UN ceasefire monitoring mission in Syria after the first 90 days, the US ambassador warned on Saturday.

"Our patience is exhausted. No one should as

Peace envoy Kofi Annan said a ceasefire in Syria appeared to be holding on its first day on Thursday, as the Syrian government and its foes traded charges of trying to wreck his peace plan.

Yet Annan

Bahrainis wielding knives and sticks attacked Shiite villagers overnight, witnesses said on Wednesday, as pressure grew for this month's Formula One race in the Sunni-ruled state to be cancelled over

Iran will defend the regime of its regional ally Syria due to its anti-Israeli stance, supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Turkish prime minister on Thursday.

"Iran will defend S

She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury - a testament to Marie Colvin's courage, which took her behind the front lines of the world's deadliest conflicts to write a

Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once compared his 33-year rule of Yemen to ‘dancing on the heads of snakes,’ formally steps down this week after Yemenis anoint a new president in an election many hope will gi

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

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Hosni Mubarak's lawyers said on Tuesday there is no evidence that he ordered Egyptian security forces to open fire on protesters, as they challenged prosecution calls for the ousted president to be ha

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, ousted in a popular revolt, on Tuesday faced prosecutors who would grill him on charges of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters, abuse of office and c