(Reuters) - Israeli officials are considering amending the format of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to the U.S. Congress next month to try to calm some of the partisan furore the Iran-focused speech has provoked. Netanyahu is due to address a joint...

  (Al Araby Al Jadeed)- Yemen has in recent years provided a live practical demonstration of the maxim that political sectarianism is manufactured, rather than inherent. It is acquired rather than natural. Historically, Yemen was never party to...

(Reuters) - Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers will press ahead with a plan for more sanctions on Iran , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday, despite White House warnings that they risked derailing nuclear talks. Lawmakers, who say...

(Reuters) - When protests erupted in Cairo in 2011, liberal activist Hassan El-Erian quickly mobilized demonstrations in his hometown of Zagazig, risking arrest, or worse, to push for democracy.  Inspired by the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Arab Spring uprisings...