Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election, but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote,...

Istanbul will host the founding conference for Syrian Democrats Union for two days between 28 - 29 September under the leadership Of Michael Kilo, the veteran dissident and former political prisoner .   The conference will come after a...

 Angela Merkel may not personally like Vladimir Putin very much, but the German chancellor is surely pleased the Russian president’s diplomatic efforts have temporarily averted U.S. plans for a military strike against Syria. Constrained by Germany’s jingoistic past and a looming...