Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the anti-government protests in his country are not comparable to the Arab Spring protests elsewhere, and that it's not people, but terrorists, who want to oust him from power.
As Libya prepares for a June 7 national vote, violence shows that the sectarian divisions in the country are a serious problem.
How powerful is the Syrian military? How do Western nations stack up against it? And would it be wise to intervene in the first place?
The 54-cent decline in the average price of gasoline over the last 3 months should add approximately $54 billion of incremental income to U.S. consumers.
What is so special about the term civil war, and why are governments, media and analysts shying away from openly using that label to describe what's happening in Syria?
The two countries have been at odds since early into the 16 month-old crisis in Syria, but now Turkey is ready to punish Syria for attacking two of its planes.
Regardless of how the NATO meetings turn out, relations between Turkey and Syria (once strong allies) have plunged to a new all-time low.
Asia's top buyers of Iranian crude oil have found ways to continue the imports, bypassing the U.S. and European Union sanctions on trade with Tehran, to avoid depending entirely on the Saudi Arabian oil amid unsteady supplies from Libya and Iraq.
Arab racism against black people is deeply-rooted and stretches back centuries.
The State Department released its report ahead of the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln?s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the U.S. South in 1863.
Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.
The development comes as Western and some Arab nations have apparently lost hope that Russia, Syria?s strongest ally, will pressure Assad to give up power or end his crackdown on opponents.
The book ?Founding Myths? was particularly critical of what Garaudy viewed as excessive Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy.
On Monday her house was among several raided by security forces, with Sobchak ordered to appear at a police station only hours before a major anti-government rally took place in Moscow on Tuesday.
Children in Syria were tortured, executed and used as human shields by the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime during military raids against rebels, a U.N. report released Monday said.
On Sunday, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz endorsed using military intervention to stop the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Crude oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose 40,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 31.75 million in May, a new survey has shown.
Dorda plead not-guilty to charges of mobilizing security forces to fire bullets at the heads and chests of civilians and preventing, through the use of force and intimidation, the staging of peaceful protests.
Libi, an Islamic scholar from Libya, was believed to be Al-Qaida's second-in-command
Al-Qaida's second-in-command was reportedly at the site of a drone strike in northwestern Pakistan, but his death has not yet been confirmed, a U.S. official announced Tuesday.
A Libyan military court convicted 24 Eastern European men of acting as mercenaries for Moammar Gadhafi during last year's revolution.
The recent discoveries of gas in the eastern Mediterranean creates a whole new energy paradigm for two nations -- Cyprus and Israel -- which formerly were believed to possess no natural resources at all. Their subsequent alliance has further upset the geopolitical balance in the Near East.
