After counting nearly 95 percent of votes in Tunisia's presidential election, Beji Caid el-Sebsi, head of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party, won 39.5 percent of votes followed by interim president Moncef Marzouki. A tally conducted by Anadolu Agency showed that Marzouki came...

BEIRUT: Clashes with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades erupted between rival Palestinian gunmen in the refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh in the southern suburb of Beirut Monday, killing a woman and injuring several others, security sources told The Daily Star. The...

(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned, the first major cabinet change after Obama's Democrats were routed in mid-term elections three weeks ago. Obama was to announce Hagel's resignation at a White House event at 11:10 a.m. on Monday. Hagel, who had...

(Reuters) - An official under former hardline ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali appears set for a close run-off in Tunisian presidential polls with a rival who says he represents the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprising that toppled him. Preliminary results in the country's first...