BEIRUT: The Red Cross is trying to gain access to a war-ravaged neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs but it could be days before aid teams are allowed in, a spokesman said Sunday.
The group has been trying to enter the district of Baba Amr (...)
CAIRO: Egypt said Saturday the criminal trial of 44 NGO workers will start Feb. 26 in a politically charged case against foreign-funded pro-democracy groups that has badly shaken Cairo's ties with Washington.
The trial represents an escalation in (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian justice minister returned a letter Tuesday from the US Ambassador to Egypt asking him to re-examine the issue of Americans barred from leaving the country.
The snub is the latest in a spat between the allies over a politically (...)
CAIRO: A year later, the neighbors still speak of those killed the night they attacked the police station: The young man shot in the neck while carrying off his wounded friend; the bodybuilder who took a bullet in the hip; the 15-year-old girl shot (...)
CAIRO: Egypt has banned the son of US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and a number of other Americans from leaving the country as tensions rise over moves by Egyptian authorities to restrict the work of international rights organizations.
The (...)
CAIRO: The lawyer defending Egypt's former interior minister from charges that he ordered the killing of protesters during last year's uprising on Monday blamed "thugs and foreign elements" for shooting people.
Essam Al-Battawi told a Cairo court (...)
CAIRO: Airport officials say Israel's new ambassador to Egypt has arrived in Cairo, three months after protesters ransacked the Israeli Embassy here.
Yaakov Amitai will join a small number of Israeli diplomatic staff still in the Egyptian (...)
CAIRO — A runoff Monday for Egypt's first-round parliamentary elections exposed tensions between competing Islamist parties that have so far dominated the vote.
In the southern province of Assiut, supporters of the hardline Islamist Gamaa (...)
CAIRO: A trickle of Egyptian voters headed to the polls Monday for two days of run-offs in the country's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a balloting in which Islamist parties already captured an overwhelming majority of (...)
CAIRO (AP): Anticipating a strong presence in the new Egyptian parliament, ultraconservative Islamists have outlined plans for a strict brand of religious law, a move that could limit personal freedoms and steer a key U.S. ally toward an Islamic (...)
CAIRO (AP): First-time voter Hassan Abdel-Hamid had no idea who to vote for in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, so he followed the guidance of the friendly activist from the Muslim Brotherhood who (...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S.-backed deal for Yemen's authoritarian president to step down falls far short of the demands of protesters fighting regime supporters on the streets of Sanaa in clashes that have left five dead.
The agreement ending (...)
CAIRO: A crowd of tens of thousands swelled in Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday, demanding that Egypt's military leaders quickly hand over power to a civilian government. The ruling military council held crisis talks with leaders of political parties (...)
CAIRO — Here's how the new head of al-Qaida remembers Osama bin Laden: A sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remained close to his children despite the hard life of an international jihadist, and fondly remembered — by name (...)
CAIRO — For four days this week, deadly gunfights raged between two villages in central Egypt. Men from one side besieged the other, blocking roads to keep food and cooking gas from getting in while keeping terrified residents from getting (...)
CAIRO (AP) — A Yemeni official says security forces have killed at least 10 al-Qaida-linked militants in a battle near the town of Zinjibar, the capital of the southern Abyan province.
The official said the 10 were killed during heavy fighting (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's wife and other relatives fled to Algeria Monday, the Algerian foreign ministry said.
The Algerian government said Gadhafi's wife, daughter, two of his sons and their children entered (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyans hunting Moammar Gadhafi offered a $2 million bounty on the fallen dictator's head and amnesty for anyone who kills or captures him as rebels battled Wednesday to clear the last pockets of resistance from the capital (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: Qaddafi's spokesman told AP Qaddafi is in Libya and leading the fight against rebels.
Libyan rebels battled forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi on the streets of Tripoli Thursday, with the clatter of machine gunfire echoing through (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: A defiant Moammar Qaddafi vowed Wednesday to fight on "until victory or martyrdom," as rebel fighters tried to end scattered attacks by regime loyalists in the nervous capital.
The rebels say they have now taken control of nearly (...)
CAIRO: Airport officials say some 300 passengers were rushed off an EgyptAir plane that caught fire before takeoff from Cairo.
The officials say an electrical short in the cockpit caused the fire early Friday as the plane was scheduled to fly to (...)
CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak's trial will be set at the Cairo Exhibition Grounds with hundreds of seats for an audience, heavy security and a metal defendants' cage large enough to hold the man who ruled Egypt unchallenged for three decades, his two sons (...)
CAIRO — Al-Qaida's new leader praised Syrian protesters seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad while trying to portray the uprising as an Islamic battle against American and Israeli interests.
The video message posted on extremist (...)
CAIRO: Several thousand protesters marched toward Egypt's ministry of defense and headquarters of the country's military rulers in a rare rally Friday following reports of scuffles between protesters and soldiers in other cities.
Armored vehicles (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan rebels fighting to oust Muammar Gadhafi have looted shops and clinics and torched the homes of suspected regime supporters in some of the towns they seized in the country's western mountains, Human Rights Watch said (...)