(Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that removed him from power. The court also cleared Mubarak and a...

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At least 50 people were killed in multiple blasts and sporadic gunfire in and around a prominent mosque in Nigeria's northwestern Kano State as Muslims observed Friday prayers, an emergency official has said. "I cannot tell you at the moment how many people died in total, but...

(Reuters) - Three people including an army general were killed and at least 26 wounded on Friday in a drive-by shooting and violence that erupted at Islamist protests around Egypt , security sources and health officials said. Police were out in force for the demonstrations,...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia blocked calls on Thursday from poorer members of the OPEC oil exporter group for production cuts to arrest a slide in global prices, sending benchmark crude plunging to a fresh four-year low. Brent oil fell more than $6 to $71.25 a barrel after OPEC...

(Reuters) - France warned on Friday it would recognize a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a U.N.-backed resolution. Lawmakers...

Tunisian presidential hopeful Moncef Marzouki on Friday lodged an appeal against the results of the first round of this week's presidential poll with the country's electoral commission, according to a source with Marzouki's campaign. The move has led to the postponement of the...

Reporting by Mohamed AL Hussein; Translation by yusra Ahmed AL HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between Syrian regime and the Islamic State for two days in al-Hasakah, where heavy arms and air-strikes were used. Sources reported that regime forces supported with the...

(Reuters) - A state prosecutor on Friday demanded a prison term of over four years for a 20-year-old German man accused of fighting with Islamic State insurgents in Syria , in the first trial of its kind in Germany . The defendant, identified only as Kreshnik B., who was...

Two people were killed in clashes between Islamist protesters and Egyptian police in Cairo on Friday, security officials said. The army and police had fanned out across the capital in anticipation of rallies called by an Islamist group, and police quickly moved in to...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 700 rebel fighters have defected Suqour al-Sham brigades to join Ahrar al-Sham Movement in Idlib countryside, filed commander in the Islamist group told Zaman al-Wasl. Sheikh Hussam, who uses an alias, did not reveal the reasons...

(Reuters) - Syria rejected as "fabricated" U.S. accusations that its forces are targeting civilians with air strikes and said Washington would do better to criticize hardline Islamic State militants who have killed American citizens. The U.S. State Department said on...

(AFP)- Once-proud shop owners in Aleppo's picturesque old city market, the merchants of Syria's former economic capital now live on a pittance selling goods on pavements and stalls. After a major rebel offensive on Aleppo in July 2012, the city's historic souk fell prey to a war...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces have killed at least 30 rebels in an ambush in the suburbs of Damascus where troops and allied gunmen have been on the offensive for weeks, activists and state media said Thursday. State news agency SANA said 50 "terrorists" were...

  The Syrian regime and key ally Russia have agreed to support a UN proposal to suspend fighting in the battered northern city of Aleppo, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said. Muallem's remarks, reported by state news agency SANA, followed a meeting between President...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The clashes between Al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and Syria revolutionaries’ Front have been renewed on Thursday in Ma’rret Harmeh town in Idlib countryside, field sources said.   Nusra Front, in statement posted online, said...

BEIRUT  (The Daily Star) : The Nusra Front threatened Thursday to execute one of the 26 Lebanese captives being held by jihadis on the northeast border unless Lebanon releases a female terror suspect within 24 hours. “This is the final warning for negotiations to start...

  (Zaman Al Wasl-Arab News)- At least 500 Haj pilgrims from Syria have refused to return home after completing the pilgrimage citing the ongoing political unrest and have appealed for asylum in the Kingdom. Saudi authorities did not prosecute the...

(Reuters) - The websites of British and North American media organizations and retailer Wal-Mart's Canadian unit were hacked on Thursday in a suspected attack by the Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Among...

By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition agreed to partially re-open water supply to Damascus, until the regime agrees on their demands. Water supply came back to Damascus after three days of complete cut-off, which was as a...