Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves....

(Anadolu Agency)- The Kurdish population of Kobani is welcome in Turkey until the war-torn Syrian town of Kobani is rebuilt, the wife of the Turkish president has said. Emine Erdogan was participating Thursday in the inauguration of Suruc tent city, in Sanliurfa, south-eastern...

By Bushra al-Maqrari (al-Araby al-Jadeed)- Yemeni optimism was short-lived after President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi escaped house arrest in Sanaa and travelled to Aden. Hadi's actions shook up the political scene stagnant since the Houthi...

Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's presidency said Thursday that Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, who spearheaded a brutal crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, had been replaced along with seven other ministers. The removal of Ibrahim, who was appointed by Morsi, follows...