Egypt's first freely elected president found himself isolated and abandoned by allies as even his guards simply stepped away. The army chief came to President Mohammed Morsi with a simple demand: Step down on your own. "Over my dead body!" Morsi replied to General Abdel Fatah...

Obama spoke of U.S. allegiance to 'democratic principles' after Egypt President Mohamed Morsi's ouster, but critics say little effort had been made to foster democracy. The military overthrow of the democratically elected government in Egypt, for decades America's most important Arab ally,...

  Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said.  In...

  National Coalition member, Haitham al-Maleh, told Zaman Alwasl that Ghassan Hito, the current Opposition government will be replaced by another well-known figure of the opposition as well as we have thousands of diplomats and political dissidents who are very qualified...