A senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was gunned down Wednesday outside his home in southern Beirut, security officials said. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing, something officials there quickly denied. Hezbollah immediately announced the death of...

  Prominent Egyptian-born Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has resigned from Al-Azhar's Senior Scholars Council, the prestigious Cairo-based religious institution's most authoritative body. In a Monday statement, al-Qaradawi said his resignation aimed to "register...

   An international watchdog group says its annual survey shows the most violent nations in the Middle East are perceived to be the region’s most corrupt and are getting worse.   Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index ranks...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan in Moscow on Tuesday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.   Details of the planned meeting are not immediately available, but the talks are likely to focus on the...