The Arab League said it agreed on Sunday to open contacts with Syria's opposition and to ask the United Nations to form a joint peacekeeping force to the

Greek police on Sunday fired tear gas at petrol bomb-throwing protesters outside parliament, where tens of thousands had massed in a rally against austerity

Osama bin Laden wanted his younger children to go to college in the West and live in peace rather than embrace terrorism, according to his brother-in-law.

A New Jersey father and son were being held captive in a hotel in the southern African nation of Angola for 44 days and counting after New York City rapper Nas

Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, and arms are also being sent across the border to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's regime, Iraq's

Egyptian police on Saturday arrested an Australian journalist, an American student and their Egyptian translator on suspicion of paying Egyptians to stage

A planned day of civil disobedience and strikes against Egypt's military rulers to mark a year since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow saw only a small turnout

A senior US official Saturday called for both sides involved in a battle for control of the Maldives' government to refrain from violence and work toward

The Obama administration is gearing up for next week's visit by Chinese vice president Xi Jinping, who is expected to become the country's next leader, as a

A Syrian general who ran a hospital in the capital Damascus was assassinated outside his home Saturday morning, the official SANA news agency reported.

Niger will not extradite Saadi Gadhafi even though the son of the slain Libyan leader violated his asylum conditions with "subversive" comments in a television

UK police arrested eight people Saturday, including a serving member of Britain's armed forces, over claims of illegal payments to police and public officials

Iran will make a "very important" announcement on its nuclear program within days, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.

A CIA investigation failed to discover what caused a US drone to come down in Iran late last year and raised fears it failed to dump sensitive data, FOX News

A German court found Muslim extremist Arid Uka guilty Friday of the killing of two US airmen in a shooting at Frankfurt Airport last year and sentenced him to