SANAA, Yemen: Yemen’s interior minister said Saturday that his country was disappointed to find that a large and diverse cache of weapons seized on a
DAMASCUS, Syria: President Bashar Assad has reshuffled his Cabinet, appointing new ministers to handle an economy ravaged by two years of uprising and civil war, Syria’s state media reported Saturday.
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s English-language channel Press TV says that it has been dropped by the satellite that had broadcast its signal to North America. The Saturday report says that the
KABUL, Afghanistan: A government official says a roadside bomb has struck a car in southern Afghanistan, killing six civilians. The spokesman for the governor of southern Helmand province said Saturday
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels brought their fight within a mile of the heart of Damascus on Friday, seizing army checkpoints and cutting a key highway with a row of burning tires
TUNIS, Tunisia: The funeral of an assassinated leftist politician drew hundreds of thousands of mourners chanting anti-government slogans to the Tunisian capital Friday — as well as gangs of armed
DHAKA: News reports say a ferry packed with more than 100 people has capsized in a river in central Bangladesh. Reports say local villagers rescued 38 people after the ferry
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea: A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New
MINSK, Belarus: The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all — at least on paper. Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death
CAIRO: Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an anti-government leader appeared