The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation's first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil. While the...

40 militants from the Iranian-backed militias, Hezbollah and Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas have been killed in rebels' ambush near the Shiite Shrine, Sayyedah Zeinab in Damascus suburbs.   Hezbollah have been battling alongside Syrian regime forces in an attempt to...

 When Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, made no annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last week for the first time ever, his unspoken message could hardly have been louder. For most countries, refusing to give a scheduled speech would count...

It isn't exactly Superman-like X-ray vision, but cheap, low-power Wi-Fi technology is gaining more attention as a remote sensing tool, according to Cnet website. Do you really wish you had X-ray vision? Sure, it would be fun to see what your neighbors are doing behind those walls -- until...