TUNIS: Every Friday, bearded men in shin-length robes demonstrate in Tunisia's capital against perceived insults to Islam in a country once known for its aggressive secularism. They have occasionally turned violent, attacking secular intellectuals (...)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Election results for the first 78 seats in Morocco's parliament announced by the state news agency early Saturday suggest a moderate Islamist party is taking about 36 percent of the seats.
With just a fraction of the results (...)
RABAT: It should be a moment of excitement: Moroccans are choosing a parliament in elections Friday prompted by the Arab Spring's clamor for freedom.
Yet there are few signs here that elections are even taking place.
Posters and raucous rallies (...)
RABAT, Morocco — Once seen as a threat to this North African kingdom, Morocco's Islamist party may now be key to the government's credibility.
The opposition Islamist Justice and Development Party is poised for a strong showing in Friday's (...)
BEIRUT — Syria's president faces a growing challenge to his iron rule from home and abroad, with renegade troops launching their most daring attack yet on the military and world leaders looking at possibilities for a regime without Bashar (...)
TUNIS: As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar (...)
TUNIS, Tunisia — As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire (...)
ALGIERS, Algeria — A new "day of rage" was called recently in this violence-scarred North African nation. But when the allotted time arrived, nobody showed up: The colonnaded boulevards in the heart of Algiers on May 1st Square were quiet, with just (...)
CASABLANCA, Morocco — Thousands of Moroccans demonstrated on Sunday calling for greater political freedoms, as the country's pro-democracy movement attempted to regain momentum lost over the summer.
At least 3,000 people marched through the (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya — The bodies are scattered around a grassy square next to Muammar Gadhafi's compound of Bab al-Aziziya. Prone on grassy lots as if napping, sprawled in tents. Some have had their wrists bound by plastic ties.
The identities of the (...)
Al-AZIZIYA, Libya — Dozens of horsemen in flowing robes sat on their mounts cheering as men around them fired AK-47s in the air, proclaiming their allegiance to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi and their readiness to march on the rebel-held western (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Representatives of Moammar Gadhafi's embattled government held face-to-face talks with U.S. officials in neighboring Tunisia over the weekend, a Libyan government official said, describing the meeting as a first step in opening (...)
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 (...)
PARIS (AP) — Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that despite the upheaval in the Arab world from pro-democracy uprisings, Israel should push forward with negotiations.
Ehud Barak was in Paris Tuesday for talks with the French foreign and (...)
convicted a top newspaper editor of discrediting court rulings and publishing information on unproven crimes and sentenced him to a year in prison.
The trial and verdict of Rachid Nini, the executive editor of Al-Massae newspaper, outraged (...)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — With Shakira and other top international artists performing in open air venues around Morocco's capital — often for free — the annual Mawazine world music festival doesn't at first seem like something anyone could (...)
With Shakira and other top international artists performing in open air venues around Morocco's capital — often for free — the annual Mawazine world music festival doesn't at first seem like something anyone could dislike.
Activists from (...)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Colombian pop singer Shakira said Saturday she would one day like to sing pop songs, if not an entire album, in Arabic.
The native Spanish speaker, who also has global hits in English, was speaking at a news conference in (...)
Colombian pop singer Shakira said she would one day like to sing pop songs, if not an entire album, in Arabic.
The native Spanish speaker, who also has global hits in English, was speaking this week at a news conference in Morocco, where she was (...)
TUNIS: Egypt and Tunisia, the poster nations for the popular uprisings that swept the Middle East, head this week to an annual meeting of the world's rich nations to save their countries from the economic consequences of their revolutions.
As (...)
CAIRO (AP): More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center.
The results of the poll, released on Monday, highlight the deep (...)
BENGHAZI: Moammar Qaddafi's forces swept rebels from a key oil town with waves of strikes from warships, tanks and warplanes, closing on the opposition-held eastern half of Libya as insurgents pleaded for a UN-imposed no-fly zone.
Qaddafi's (...)
RAS LANOUF: A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Moammar Qaddafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major (...)
RAS LANOUF: Libyan rebels said Monday they will regroup and bring in heavy weapons after forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi pounded opposition fighters with helicopter gunships, artillery and rockets to stop the rebels' rapid advance toward the (...)
BENGHAZI: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi retook control of a key oil installation and port on the coast of the rebel-held eastern half of the country Wednesday and warplanes bombed an ammunition depot on the outskirts of a nearby town (...)