SANAA: They marched out of their tent camp in the heart of Yemen's capital, holding hands and dancing to patriotic songs blaring from loudspeakers. Several walked with canes, others carried plastic flowers. Some knelt down to offer what could be (...)
CAIRO: Gunmen abducted the 12-year-old grandniece of the late Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat but released her nearly 24 hours later for LE 5 million (about $840,000) in ransom, security officials said Monday.
The girl, sixth-grader Zeina Effat (...)
CAIRO: In its latest effort to defuse public anger amid mass protests, embattled President Hosni Mubarak's regime set up a committee Tuesday to recommend constitutional changes that would relax presidential eligibility rules and impose term (...)
CAIRO: Ultimately, only the military can tell President Hosni Mubarak — one of its own — that it's time to step down.
Egypt's most powerful and most secretive institution has so far given no hint of whether it will abandon the 82-year-old former (...)
CAIRO: Though he still delivers a speech like an aloof corporate executive announcing quarterly profits, the son and presumptive heir of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is busy remolding his image into a populist who can deliver prosperity for the (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian man set himself on fire Monday outside the country's parliament building in central Cairo in an apparent protest, security officials said.
The incident appeared to be an attempt to copy the self-immolation last month of a (...)
SAN'A: Al-Qaeda in Yemen, suspected in the thwarted mail bombing attempt, appears to be aggressively seeking to recruit American and European radicals who could provide an entry way for the group to carry out attacks in their homelands.
Yemen (...)
BAGHDAD: Only one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched.
"Our chances of finding husbands are diminishing as we grow older," said Haidar, a 38-year-old dressmaker from Baghdad. "I am at an age where (...)
BAGHDAD: Baghdad's traffic cops are demanding their own guards after at least 10 were killed over the past week in drive-by shootings and other attacks that have set back efforts to restore normalcy to Iraq's capital after years of (...)
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaeda in Iraq has begun offering cash to lure back former Sunni allies angry over the government's failure to give them jobs and pay their salaries on time, according to Sunni tribesmen and Iraqi officials.
The recruitment drive adds (...)
Iraq's artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 US-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country's traumas and uncertainty over its future.
They have a lot to deal with: A (...)
DAMASCUS,Syria: After delivering a lecture on the increasing role of private banks in Syria, economist Mohammed Ayman Al-Maydani got an uncomfortable request from members of the audience to elaborate on a brief reference he made to corruption in the (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya: A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A (...)
For decades, Arabic fiction was associated with the name of one man: Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature. Nearly four years after his death, his native Egypt is experiencing an unprecedented fiction explosion from a new (...)