King Tutankhamun, an icon of Ancient Egypt, reportedly had buck teeth, wide hips and a severe limp, digitally recreated images have shown. In a BBC documentary which airs next Sunday , researchers found that the most famous Pharaoh may have not lived the life insinuated by his...

The UN Special Representative for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is set to arrive in Iran on Sunday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria with the country’s senior officials, Iranian officials have said. He is scheduled to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani,...

The Palestinian faction Hamas on Saturday downplayed a previous invitation by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for Palestinians to stay at Al-Aqsa Mosque to defend it against Israeli violations. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zurhi described the Palestinian Authority...

Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi on Saturday insisted that he was still his country's legitimate president as he stood trial on charges of breaking jail upon the uprising that toppled longstanding president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, a judicial source said. The source...

A group of Houthi militants late on Saturday stormed the administrative building of Sanaa province and besieged the home of Sanaa governor, Abdel-Ghani Hefzallah Jameel, eyewitnesses said. They said the Houthis had besieged the administrative building of the province for...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lauded Turkish troops stationed in Afghanistan for their efforts in maintaining peace and stability in the volatile country during his visit to Camp Dogan in Kabul Saturday. Camp Dogan is name of the Turkish military unit in Kabul...

BEIRUT (AP) — With all eyes on the Islamic State group's onslaught in Iraq and Syria, a less conspicuous but potentially just as explosive front line with the extremists is emerging in Lebanon, where Lebanese soldiers and Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas are increasingly pulled into...

(Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo slammed into Bermuda on Friday, knocking out most of the electricity as it lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with pounding surf, torrential rain and howling wind, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The strongest storm to sweep...

(Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite Houthi fighters and supporters of the Sunni Moslem party Islah clashed in central Yemen on Saturday, residents and local officials said, another sign of sectarian warfare in the violence-prone country that borders Saudi Arabia . Saturday's fighting in...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...

( Davidson Website )- Like thousands in her home country of Syria, artist Etab Hreib is intimately familiar with the consequences of violent conflict – her son was recently arrested and imprisoned by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and her house in Syria robbed. Hreib, who grew...

(Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sugar production in Syria fell to less than a fifth this year compared to 4 years ago, 250 thousand tons of sugar beet were processed, it was the lowest in 50 years....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Bahraini activist who is eight months pregnant was detained for "insulting" the king after she tore up his photograph in court, a human rights organization said Thursday. Human Rights Watch said Zainab al-Khawaja appeared before a Bahraini...

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Egypt's military involvement in Libya underlines Cairo's concerns about the threat posed by Islamic militant groups operating near the two nations' porous border, as well as home-grown jihadis who rely on their Libyan comrades for weapons. Above all, Egypt aims...

While the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) violence rages on, Turkey is pushing for a no-fly zone and a safe haven near the Syrian-Turkish border for Syrian refugees as thousands of civilians from the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobani continue to flee into...

The Israeli police closed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to Jewish settlers as thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshippers thronged in, a Palestinian official said. "The Israeli police closed Al-Magharbeh Gate, through which the Jewish settlers usually force their way into the...

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday there was no discrepancy between the United States and Turkey with regard to what Ankara “will or won’t do” in the fight against Islamic State insurgents. Speaking at a news conference in Paris...

  (Al Jazeera)- Ahmed Mansour, a presenter on Al Jazeera Arabic, has been sentenced in absentia to fifteen years imprisonment by Cairo's criminal court on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square during the January 25 uprising in 2011. Al Jazeera denies the charge...

Reuters) - Tunisian security forces have arrested a group of Islamist militants, including two women, that planned to carry out attacks in the capital, Tunis, less than two weeks before parliamentary elections, authorities said on Tuesday. Since its 2011 uprising, ...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star): A Lebanese military judge Tuesday charged a former negotiator in Lebanon's hostage crisis with belonging to the Nusra Front, seeking the death penalty against Arsal's Sheikh Mustafa Hujeiri. The charges, filed by Military Investigative Judge Fadi...