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Tunisia's assembly finishes new constitution

Tunisia's national assembly approved the final articles of the country's new constitution on Thursday, three years after their uprising against autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali inspired a wave of Arab revolts. Tunisia's new charter, which the assembly will likely vote on Saturday...

Tunisia approves new constitution, appoints government

Tunisia's national assembly approved the country's new constitution on Sunday in one of the last steps to establishing full democracy three years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Just before the constitution vote, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa...

Syria talks yield narrow deal, Assad 'red line'

 Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus." With little progress to show after...