(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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-   Ahmed Tomeh’s government failed to win confidence vote of National Coalition’s members where 5 ministers failed to reach the quorum of 56-vote to win. The last 72 hours witnessed sharp hassles among the the key...

BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants and Syrian rebels launched an attack against two predominantly Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria that have been under siege for some 18 months, activists and a monitoring group said Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees and the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army founder, Riad al-Asaad, refused to meet former head of Syria's main political opposition who wanted to brief rebels by the outcomes of his recent visit to Russia, sources said. Moaz al-Khatib, the former head...