The head of Arab TV channel Al Jazeera said on Tuesday he was leaving the network, but gave no reason for his departure at a time when the station's coverage has played an important role in unprecedented protest movements rocking the Arab world.
A federal appeals court said on Monday that the 17-year prison sentence imposed on Jose Padilla, a US citizen also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted of aiding terrorists in 2007, was too lenient.
Egypt approved on Monday the establishment of a party led by a former top official in Hosni Mubarak's now disbanded party and rejected another set up by an Islamist group, the committee charged with reviewing party applications said in a statement.
Palestinian leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to seek United Nations membership -- a stance that puts them at odds with the U.S. position. The Obama administration maintains that direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians remains the only route to reconciliation.
The U.S. has been stepping up its efforts to mediate between both Israel and Turkey -- its critical allies in the region
Protesters congregated in New York's Financial District on Saturday for a global Day of Rage movement called Occupy Wall Street to protest corporate greed in a demonstration set to last days.
Protestors involved with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration have started their pilgrimage toward Wall Street, where they have started to set up camp for an indeterminable amount of time in order to curb the influence of big business over Washington lawmakers.
The fact of the matter is that violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautioned Friday that social unrest in the United States could ensue if action is not taken by policy makers to create jobs and lower the U.S.'s high 9.1 percent unemployment rate.
Facebook is a technology business, but during an interview Friday at the Paley Center, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg made it sound like a digital utopia.
Forces loyal to Libya's new rulers surged into the desert town of Bani Walid Friday in a fierce attack on one of the last strongholds still in the hands of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists that could prove a major turning point in the war.
Morocco's trade deficit expanded 22.6 percent in the January-August period from a year ago to 122.2 billion dirhams due mainly to higher spending on energy imports, official data showed on Thursday.
The Kabul attack is now over, but the Middle East and Arab worlds are still overflowing with violence, social unrest and international tension. Here is the round up of news from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
Political parties have called on Egypt's military rulers to ensure that figures associated with the government of ousted President Hosni Mubarak cannot run in parliamentary elections expected this year.
The Arab Spring revolutions could enable sectarian and religious violence in countries where civil society has collapsed, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on religious freedom.
New al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri voiced support in an Internet video for popular revolts shaking the Middle East, saying Arabs no longer feared the United States 10 years after the country was targeted by the militant network.
Egypt's former intelligence chief who was also briefly vice president, Omar Suleiman, began giving testimony on Tuesday at the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who is charged with conspiring to kill protesters, state television reported.
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Flash mobs: from the Haka Mob to the Arab Spring, using social media to stage large events is a 21st century phenomenon that is not going anywhere. This trend is especially true in the United States, where recent flash mobs in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa have turned violence and angry.
A demonstration by thousands of protesters at Tahrir Square in Egypt’s capital city of Cairo turned violent late Friday.
The 18-day uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is at the center of Tahrir 2011, a documentary named after the Cairo square that became a gathering point for protesters which premieres at the Venice film festival.
Hosni Mubarak was back in court on Thursday over the killing of protesters, a day after the presiding judge summoned Egypt's military ruler and other top officials to testify next week in the trial of the toppled ex-president.
