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Senate panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt
In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel on Tuesday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes President Barack Obama's request ...
Egypt's presidential race is haunted by the past
Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments. At one point, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister rode into a rally ...
Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister
Tunisia said Tuesday it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight ...
Egypt's election fever comes to Garbage City
Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on — and living from — the waste of the Egyptian capital.
Egypt: 5 police sentenced for killing protesters
An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years in prison in absentia on Tuesday for killing protesters, in a rare conviction of security ...
96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at ...
Egypt court gives 12 Christians life sentences
An Egyptian court sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims on Monday in a case set off by religious tensions in the ...
Algeria opposition front to boycott parliament
A new Algerian opposition front of 14 small political parties has announced it will boycott the new parliament, calling its election fraudulent.
A nation-by-nation look at Arab Spring's progress
Starting Wednesday, Egypt is holding its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed Hosni ...
Convicted Lockerbie bomber buried in Libya
The only man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was buried Monday with little fanfare near the Libyan capital with just under 100 family members ...
Families of Lockerbie victims still seek answers
The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his ...
Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya
He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters — a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane ...
Egyptian detainees start hunger strike
More than 100 Egyptians held since a mass arrest over two weeks ago began an open-ended hunger strike Sunday to protest their continued detention and ...
Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates
Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates: AMR MOUSSA Former head of the Arab League, he is tainted for serving Mubarak as foreign minister but ...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. The voting that ...
Echoes of Eurozone crisis at NATO meeting
The NATO meeting in Chicago is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success. But the two-day gathering that begins Sunday ...
Poll: Opposition to Iran going nuclear widespread
Opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is widespread around the world, including in neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, and support ...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, ...
Algerian singer Warda dies in Cairo at 72
The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72. Egyptian state TV said ...
Flood of Nuba refugees hits camp near Sudan border
First they ate leaves. Then they ate roots, soaked for five days and boiled until they were just edible. Now many have eaten the planting seed — and ...
Egypt: Owner of belly dancing TV station arrested
Egypt's vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness ...
Egypt: Court acquits police in protesters' deaths
An Egyptian court on Thursday found 14 policemen not guilty in the killing of protesters during last year's popular uprising, the latest verdict in ...
In Egypt's vote, revolutionaries lack a candidate
A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had ...
Clashes in western Libyan town leave 6 dead
Clashes in a western Libyan city left six dead and at least 20 injured on Wednesday, a government spokesman said. Nasser al-Manei said unidentified ...