Tripoli (dpa) – Two days of tribal clashes in southern Libya have left 37 people dead, a news report said.
Around 120 were injured when fighting broke out between members of the African Tabu tribe and two Arab tribes, news broadcaster Al Jazeera (...)
Tripoli (dpa) – Relative calm has been restored in southern Libya after clashes erupted between two tribes, killing around 15 people, state-run media reported on Tuesday.
Abdel Maguid Saif al-Nasr, member of the ruling National Transitional (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Egypt's parliament agreed on Saturday that 50 per cent of the 100-person assembly charged with drafting a new constitution will be lawmakers, which means that Islamists who have a majority in parliament will have a key role in the (...)
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (dpa) – Syria has not been invited to take part in an upcoming Arab League summit to be held in Baghdad later this month, an Iraqi official said on Friday.
The Iraqi government had initially resisted Arab League pressure (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces heavily shelled several restive areas inside the central province of Homs on Tuesday, for the 25th consecutive day, as helicopters hovered over the targeted regions, activists in the area told dpa.
“More than 80 (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed his support for newly-elected president Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi during a power transfer ceremony held Monday.
“We will continue to support the president to rebuild what the crisis has (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Shelling attacks by Syrian troops killed 30 people in rebel-held areas in the provinces of Homs and Idlib on Monday, as the government hailed the approval of a new constitution by almost 90 per cent of voters as a success of its (...)
Damascus/Cairo (dpa) – Syrians began voting Sunday on a new constitution that the government says will introduce political pluralism, as violence continued in several areas across the country.
More than 14,000 polling stations opened nationwide (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi was elected Yemen's new president with 99.8 percent of the vote, replacing Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was in power for 33 years.
Hadi, 67, was vice president for more than 17 years but rarely appeared in public or (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Dozens of shells fell early Tuesday on restive areas inside the central Syrian province of Homs, killing at least seven as they targeted residential buildings, activists said.
“More than 120 shells have fallen for the past hour on (...)
Baghdad (dpa) – Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the first such appointment since 1990 when relations between the two countries strained over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Fahd bin (...)
Benghazi, Libya (dpa) – Thousands of Libyans gathered in the eastern city of Benghazi, waving flags and cheering as they celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted late leader Muammar Gaddafi.
But there was also tension as 25 (...)
Tripoli (dpa) – Libyan government forces on Tuesday took control of the south-eastern town of Kufra after days of clashes with gunmen loyal to former leader Muammar Gaddafi that killed at least seven people, a government official told dpa.
Some (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah on Tuesday swore in a new government, which has eight new ministers, Al Arabiya broadcaster reported.
The new cabinet, which was formed after the Islamist-led opposition won 34 seat in the (...)
Manama (dpa) – Bahraini police forces used tear gas to disperse protesters on Tuesday and made at least 20 arrests, as scores of people took to the streets of Manama to mark the first anniversary of anti-government demonstrations.
Protesters (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces intensified their assault on restive areas on Monday, killing at least 21 people, activists said, while Russia said it would study an Arab League proposal to send a peacekeeping force to the violence-racked (...)
Beirut (dpa) – At least 64 people died across Syria Monday, mostly in the restive province around the city of Homs, which was heavily shelled by government troops targeting residential buildings and make-shift clinics, apposition activists told (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Key figures in the regime of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, including his two sons, are to be separated across five different prisons, Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim announced on Sunday.
The decision was made (...)
Cairo (dpa) – The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) on Sunday strongly condemned the veto by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution to end the violence in Syria.
“The SNC holds both governments accountable for the (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Fourteen-year-old Mohamed fled his abusive family in the southern Egyptian city of Minya and moved to Cairo's Tahrir Square after last year's political revolution, hoping to find safety and work.
“My father and brothers used to beat (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Eleven militants affiliated with al-Qaeda were killed Tuesday in three strikes by drones in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, local media reported.
Three local al-Qaeda leaders were among those killed in the attack, al-Watan (...)
Baghdad (dpa) – Iraq's Sunni-backed Iraqiya political bloc on Sunday decided to end a boycott of parliament, more than a month after tensions broke out between the group and the Shiite bloc headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
“We decided to (...)
Cairo (dpa) – At least 48 people were killed in Syria Sunday as Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi left for New York to seek United Nations support for a plan aimed at achieving a peaceful transfer of power in the country.
Al-Arabi said his (...)
Hurghada, Egypt (dpa) – The beaches are almost empty and taxi drivers jockey for customers in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada, once a bustling city, now desperately struggling to revive its tourism sector a year after the country's political (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian troops stormed the central province of Hama on Tuesday, with a heavy barrage of shelling, activists in the area told dpa.
“The tanks have seized all entrances to the city and all communication networks were cut,” said Abu (...)