DAMASCUS: Red Cross and Red Crescent ambulances entered the besieged Homs district of Baba Amr on Friday and evacuated seven Syrians wounded in bombardment by regime forces, the ICRC said.

KUWAITCITY: Kuwait's public prosecutor has ordered a Sunni tweeter to be detained for 21 days pending investigation on charges of allegedly insulting the faith of the Shiite minority, his...

AMMAN/BEIRUT: Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent more protests like those that have threatened President Bashar al-Assad's...

SANAA:Yemen future president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has called for urgent foreign aid to help revive the country's shattered economy, and pledged to address the concerns of southern...

BAGHDAD: Iraq wants Syria to participate in an Arab summit that is to be held in Baghdad if it is not barred from doing so by its suspension from the Arab League, the Iraqi premier said in...

RIYADH: A senior Saudi official on Saturday called on the Taliban to lay down their arms and renounce Al-Qaeda as preconditions for Saudi-mediated peace talks with the Afghan government.