(Reuters) - Tunisians vote on Sunday in a presidential election pitting an ex-official from the days of autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali against a rights activist appealing to the spirit of the 2011 revolt that ousted him. Beji Caid Essebsi, an 87-year-old former Ben Ali...

(Al Jazeera)- Heavy fighting has been reported in a suburb of Damascus as government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad try to wrest the area from control of rebel fighters. The suburb of Jobar on Saturday was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting the rebels...

Turkey's eleventh President Abdullah Gul on Friday denied a story published by the Iranian Press TV, an English-language television network, on its news website. Gul called the remarks attributed to him in the article "fallacious" and "unreal." ...

Jordanian authorities on Thursday arrested deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in the kingdom Zaki Bani Arshid on the background of his earlier statements against the United Arab Emirates, a security source. “The security agencies arrested Bani Arshid over...