MOGADISHU (AFP) - A suspected suicide car bomb attack hit a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, causing casualties, police and witnesses said. The attack, which bore the hallmarks of the Al-Qaeda-affilated Shebab rebels, hit the gate of a...

Cairo,  Asharq Al-Awsat —Representatives of the main Syrian opposition factions will be meeting in Cairo between Thursday and Saturday in an attempt to agree on common positions ahead of talks on the Syria conflict in Moscow set to begin later this month. The Egyptian Council...

An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, the two sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, pending a final trial for corruption. "Alaa and Gamal will be released Thursday evening since they are no longer involved in any other trials," Fareed al-Deeb,...

A senior Houthi leader said Wednesday that he has been on contact with former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh since the Shiite group seized control of the capital Sanaa in September. "Saleh used to me advice," Ali al-Bukhaiti said on his Facebook page, shortly after the...