LIBYA

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.

It has been 18 months since the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East, and, while some nations have emerged with a renewed spirit, others have plunged into daily violence. Here's a country-by-country look at travel and tourism in the region as it stands now.

Anthony Bourdain is traveling to an unlikely destination, surfing across the airwaves to CNN.

No Reservations host and chef Anthony Bourdain, known for traveling to exotic locales and engaging in the local culinary customs, will be joining CNN early next year for a show focusing on food and travel, the network announced .

After the Libyan civil war last year call but halted the country's oil and natural gas industry, BP on Tuesday announced it will resume its exploration work in the biggest oil-producing nation in Africa .

Monday's incident raises a serious question: What will happen if Shafiq wins the run-off election?

Israel believes this development marks a significant turning point in the Syrian crisis, namely that opposition groups have somehow crossed into Assad?s inner sanctum, raising grave doubts about the regime?s sustainability.

Obama told the graduating class of 2012 that a different world includes less deployments, stronger alliances and a greater role in global affairs where the United States of America is more respected and safer than they ever were before -- implying a stark contrast between the attitudes of George W. Bush's administration.

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it intends to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his home country after detaining him for eight months.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother said Sunday.

There are currently about 130,000 foreign troops in the country, with Americans accounting for about 90,000 of them.

North Korea has resumed construction on an experimental light water reactor, a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, Web site 38North reported Thursday.

Following a meeting in Abuja, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened renewed sanctions against a Malian military junta that overthrew the country's democratically elected government in March.

Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council gathered in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday for a one-day meeting to discuss the possibility of forming a regional bloc similar to the European Union.

A Human Rights Watch report released on Monday claims NATO failed to investigation the deaths of a number of noncombatants killed in airstrikes during last year's Libyan revolution.

The government is also permitting about 500 foreign observers, including 120 from the European Union, to monitor the elections.

The U.S. oil major is preparing to sell all of its assets in one of Africa's leading producers of crude oil -- Nigeria.