The United States said on Thursday expressed concern at Syrian government’s slow efforts to transport chemical weapons to the port of Latakia after a report said that less than 5 percent of the arsenal had been delivered and that work to destroy the weapons has fallen...

  Tunisian Tourism Minister Amel Karboul submitted her resignation to Prime Minister Mahdi Jomaa over a trip to Israel in 2006, the state news agency TAP reported on Thursday. The trip, brought up during a parliamentary session to give a vote of confidence to...

Egyptian prosecutors said on Wednesday that they were charging 20 journalists working for the Al Jazeera television network with conspiring with a terrorist group and broadcasting false images of “a civil war that raises alarms about the state’s collapse.” The charges...

"Terrorism" is the subject of Thursday's morning session of the Syria peace talks in Geneva now in its seventh day.  Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special envoy of the UN and the Arab League and the delegations from Syrian regime are also expected to...