Regional News

May 24, 2010

12:41 GMT

Yemeni officials on Monday said tribal gunmen have abducted two American tourists and are demanding the release of a jailed tribesman for the pair.

May 23, 2010

20:15 GMT

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Sunday that Nile basin nation would never threaten Egypt's water interests.

May 22, 2010

09:59 GMT

An Air India Express passenger plane from Dubai crashed outside an airport in southern India on Saturday.

May 19, 2010

21:36 GMT

The Bahraini government has issued a decree to close Al Jazeera's bureau in Manama, citing what it called the TV channel's "breach of media norms".

May 16, 2010

16:00 GMT

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will go to Italy on Tuesday on his first trip abroad since undergoing surgery in March

May 13, 2010

16:17 GMT

The president of an American defense firm fell to his death from the second floor of a deserted building in Amman, security officials said Thursday

May 11, 2010

16:54 GMT

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif on Tuesday asked parliament to pass the extension of the Emergency Law for two more years

February 1, 2010

13:59 GMT

Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from Jordanians of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday

January 14, 2010

10:26 GMT

The American Muslims Task Force (AMT), an umbrella organization of major American Muslim organizations, has called a press conference for 10 a.m., Tue

January 10, 2010

10:30 GMT

Residents of cities in southern Yemen on Sunday staged a general strike to protest what they claimed government oppression