A Tunisian rights group on Wednesday accused the police of harassing the tiny Jewish community on the southern island of Djerba, saying it had come under a string of attacks. "Tunisian Jews feel in danger, they are really afraid," Yamina Thabet, the president of the Tunisian Association...

 Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said Tuesday. Twenty of the 23 were either Al-Qaeda members or otherwise involved in terrorism, while three were convicted of unspecified "criminal charges," a...

In a religious country such as Egypt, despite atheism being a taboo highly frowned upon, atheists say their numbers are on the rise. But with any new movement taking hold, a cultural backlash is bound to ensue .   In an attempt to understand the...

Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

Egyptian court bans all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and seizes assets of Morsi's "backers". An Egyptian court has banned all the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered the assets of the backers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi seized, state television has announced....

    The UN warned on Sunday against revenge attacks in Iraq after two blasts killed 73 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad a day after a Sunni mosque was bombed.Saturday's bombings struck near funeral tents for a tribal sheikh in the Sadr City district of north Baghdad and also...

A group of professionals and former army officers launched Monday a petition urging Egypt's military chief, who ousted the country's first freely elected leader, to run for president, highlighting the yearning for a strongman to take charge after nearly three years of turmoil. The campaign...

A suicide bomber on Wednesday rammed his explosives-laden car into the military intelligence headquarters in a border town in Egypt's volatile Sinai, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 10, security officials said. The bomber drove into the one-story building at high speed,...

Egyptian Education Ministry  formed a committee to facilitate admission of the Syrian students in various government Egyptian schools  Dr. Maysa Fadel, the head of the public education sector, Ministry of Education in Egypt, confirmed that the ministry has formed a committee...

  Qatar’s first ever independently operated satellite, Eshail 1 , is slated to  has launched into space tonight at 11:30 pm Doha time, from the European Spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana. The satellite was taken into space by...

Abu Dhabi Police are warning residents against an international criminal gang luring male victims using explicit videos and then blackmailing them. According to officials, the gang would draw men into participating in online sex chats and then record the encounters, using the footage to...

Heavily armed Lebanese security forces deployed across the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday as forensic experts sifted through the rubble from twin car bombs that killed at least 47 people the day before. The coordinated explosions Friday outside two mosques in the predominantly Sunni...

      Lebanese officials condemned the explosions outside two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli Friday, saying they were aiming to incite strife in the country.   President Michel Sleiman denounced the explosions in Tripoli describing...

A Cairo criminal court ordered Egypt’s long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak freed from prison on bail yesterday, starkly illustrating the Egyptian military junta’s counterrevolutionary agenda. While the court said it would hold Mubarak for 48 hours to let the prosecution appeal the verdict,...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused  Israel  on Tuesday of having a hand in the Egyptian military's overthrow of president Mohamed Mursi, making comments likely to further undermine efforts to restore Ankara's strained ties with Israel. Erdogan, who has become one...

Former vice president accused of "betraying national trust" because of resignation after crackdown on Morsi supporters. A Cairo court has set a September trial date for Mohamed ElBaradei, the recently-resigned interim vice president for foreign affairs, on charges of "breaching national...

The most senior leader in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, has been arrested in Cairo. Mr Badie, who was wanted over alleged incitement to violence and murder, has been temporarily replaced as "general guide" by his deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat. In another development, Egypt's ex-vice...

Egyptian judiciary officials say former President Hosni Mubarak could be freed from custody this week. They say a court on Monday ordered his release in a corruption case that alleged he and his two sons embezzled funds for presidential palaces. Mubarak has been ordered released in two...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday condemned Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, saying his recent  speech  threatened to further involve Lebanon in the Syria war. “I listened to speech by Hezbollah secretary general. It was rather balanced at first, and...

Several people have been killed in a powerful explosion that rocked the stronghold of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut. Reuters witness at the scene said at least five buildings were damaged and many cars in the area were destroyed. The blast...