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To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of holding new elections, according to Palestinian officials and outside analysts. The Palestine Liberation Organization's Central...

OMAN Oman is a beautiful country.The best time to visit Oman is between October to April.Oman has caves both explored and hidden and some caves extend up to 5 km.Wadi means valley in Arabic,Oman has many beautiful wadis.The wadis contains...

Jean Kahwaji instructed his troops to raise the level of alert along the border with Israel in preparation for an attack planned by "the Israeli enemy", London-based Alquds Alarabi reported on Saturday. In a statement published ahead of Lebanon's independence...

The United Nations remains committed to monitoring the security situation along the southern border with Lebanon, top peacekeepers said...Interim Force in Lebanon, met with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to discuss his the collaboration of the peacekeeping mission and the...

Allegations of torture in Yemen are seldom investigated or prosecuted and there appears to be "a climate of impunity" for the perpetrators, the UN body added. According to the committee, political activists, journalists and rights defenders have been arrested arbitrarily...

Political violence in Iraq killed 456 Iraqis in August, the highest monthly death toll since July 2008. And with the U.S. showing no sign it plans to reverse the troop withdrawal that is now well underway, numerous struggles for power...

Naalin protest (archives)   Photo: AP Some 400 Palestinians, left-wing activists take part in weekly demonstration against separation fence's route in West Bank village of Naalin, say IDF violated law by dispersing crowd with sniper fire.

From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by...

A leader of the Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a young girl, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government was targeting the Sunni movement, which is credited for much of the...