(Al Arabiya-AFP)- Libyan human rights activist and lawyer Salwa Bugaighis, who played an active part in country’s 2011 uprising, was shot dead by unknown assailants in the eastern city of Benghazi late Wednesday. “Unknown hooded men wearing military uniforms attacked Mrs...

(Al Arabiya News)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “never” thought about resigning or making concessions, especially to the foreign-based opposition, former U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper in an interview published on...

The first of 300 US military advisers are setting up in Baghdad to help the Iraqi army tackle a expanding Sunni rebellion that has swept the country's north and west. The special forces troops landed in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday and were beginning evaluations on Wednesday,...

  The National Coalition appointed Mr. Asaad al-Achi as its executive director of Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) on Wednesday, source said. Al-Achi, 34, based in Scotland, is a Western-educated accountant and  financial...