Obama assures Saudi king on Iran nuclear dealUS president discusses ‘tactical differences’ on Syrian and Iran with King AbdullahMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Entry of Sisi to presidential race divides opinion in EgyptCandidacy welcomed by secular politicians and Salifis, but criticised by Muslim Brotherhood leaderFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
Arab leaders call for political solution to Syrian conflictSyrian opposition leader urges that rebels be supplied with sophisticated weaponsThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s revolutionaries fear return to dark age of repressionCritics say Egypt is more insecure and repressed than it was under MubarakTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
Syrian army claims full control of western Homs provinceMore than 90 insurgents killed and Crusader fort of Crac des Chevaliers recaptured, says officerSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Syria army captures rebel stronghold of YabroudSeizure allows government forces to close main smuggling route for fighters and armsMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:07
Syrian conflict enters fourth year with no end in sightA range of global and local rivalries are combining to prolong the warFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Saudi Arabia threatens to blockade Qatar over terrorismRiyadh wants to contain radical groups and media at odds with foreign jihad policyTue Mar 11 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s military-backed interim government resigns unexpectedlyResignation comes after criticism of administration’s economic managementTue Feb 25 2014 - 01:00
Syria agrees to co-operate with UN resolution on aid accessResolution demands access to all civilians and urges lifting of siegesMon Feb 24 2014 - 07:27
Russia and Iran must stop enabling Syrian government remain in power, warns KerryUS secretary of state urges Russia to cease distributing weapons and aidTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:00
Damascus blamed for deadlock in Syrian peace talksBritain and France criticise lack of progress on ceasefireMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Russia accuses US of using Syrian talks to effect ‘regime change’Moscow unhappy with John Kerry’s claim that forming transitional authority was sole purpose of peace talksFri Feb 14 2014 - 19:10
UN mediator has talks with US and Russia over Syrian deadlockMoscow and western powers disagree on resolution over access to besieged areasFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Brahimi to hold trilateral talks on SyriaUS and Russia meeting brought forward as government, opposition remain deadlockedThu Feb 13 2014 - 00:41
Syrian peace talks make little progress, says United Nations mediatorAl-Qaeda offshoot begins withdrawal from besieged Yarmouk, says Al JazeeraWed Feb 12 2014 - 01:00
Mismatch at talks as government team faces off with disjointed Syrian oppositionUnited Damascus delegation contrasts with a coalition torn by regional rivalriesTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
Second round of Syrian peace talks open in toxic atmosphereEach side accuses the other of firing on UN convoys in HomsTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
More than 600 civilians evacuated from HomsSyrian delegation arrives in Geneva for second round of talks with oppositionMon Feb 10 2014 - 01:00
Thousands of Iraqi women tortured, says Human Rights WatchReport says legacy of abuse inherited from Saddam Hussein lives onFri Feb 7 2014 - 01:00
UN accuses both sides in Syria of grave violations against children10,000 children have been killed and ‘unspecified numbers’ abused and torturedThu Feb 6 2014 - 01:00
Media circus replaces jazz as Syrian peace talks caravan rolls into MontreuxThe small Swiss town was beseiged by 40 ministers, UN officials and scores of journalists looking for wifiTue Feb 4 2014 - 01:00
Barrel bombs dropped on Aleppo kill over 80 peopleSyrian army steps up bombardment of rebel-held areaMon Feb 3 2014 - 01:00
US says Syria has not handed over bulk of chemical weaponsPeace talks delegations observe minute’s silence for tens of thousands killedFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Syrian government says it is ready to discuss transitional authorityGap between sides very large, says Brahimi, but ice is breaking slowlyThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Warring factions hit deadlock in Syrian peace talksUN envoy encouraged that parties wish to continue talksWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
Syrian talks hit impasse as mission to Homs stallsGovernment plan for expanded national unity government headed by President Bashar al-Assad rejectedTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Women and children to be allowed to leave HomsAid waiting outside rebel-held Syrian city as peace talks in Geneva stallMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Syrian talks to begin in earnestBrahimi achieves major breakthrough in bringing both sides face to faceSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:05
Sides edge towards direct talks on Syria after mediationUN meetings lay groundwork for further talks with delegations this morningFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
Montreux talks still far from crossing great divide on SyriaThere was little goodwill amid plain disagreement at yesterday’s talks in the Swiss cityThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Bitter exchanges as Syria summit beginsStark divisions in Montreux over Assad’s role in country’s futureThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Obama and Putin speak on eve of peace talksNo agreement between two leaders on desired outcome of Syria summit in MontreuxWed Jan 22 2014 - 01:00
Assad tells Russians he plans to stay in powerSyrian president rejects stepping down ahead of peace talks brokered by Washington and MoscowMon Jan 20 2014 - 01:00
Egyptian regime under pressure to switch order of electionsThe landslide approval of a new constitution will increase calls for presidential poll to be held before a parliament is electedSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Egyptian voters approve new constitutionMilitary maintains budgetary independenceFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Egyptians show no sign of election fatigue at third constitutional pollThe referendum is being seen as an endorsement of Morsi’s oustingThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:03
Egyptians vote for their future on first day of constitutional referendumVoters are upbeat at some polling stations; at others the mood is seriousWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
Low turnout predicted in Egyptian referendum on divisive constitutionAllies of the Muslim Brotherhood have threatened to attack polling stationsTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
Egypt’s military chief to consider standing in elections to select Morsi successor later in yearGen Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi urges Egyptians to vote in force for new constitutionMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
Syrian opposition fails to agree on peace talks delegationAlmost 500 people killed in eight days of fighting between insurgents and jihadisFri Jan 10 2014 - 19:46
Syrian rebels seize headquarters of al-Qaeda-linked factionAs Qatar, Saudia Arabia and UAE compete for influence, National Coalition postpones peace conference decisionThu Jan 9 2014 - 01:00
Iraqi PM urges people to drive out al-QaedaAppeal to Falluja as Sunni tribesmen fight to retake areas of nearby RamadiTue Jan 7 2014 - 01:00
Kingdom is world’s 20th largest importerDeeply conservative country is major market for European goodsTue Jan 7 2014 - 01:00
34 killed in air strikes by Iraq’s militaryAl-Qaeda hideouts hit as ‘concerned’ Kerry says US will not send in troopsMon Jan 6 2014 - 01:00
Repression by Iraq’s Shia regime sparks Sunni revoltFailing conciliation, Anbar uprising could spark full-scale Sunni rebellionSat Jan 4 2014 - 00:54
Air strikes ‘have killed more than 500 in last two weeks’Most fatalities caused by improvised bombs dropped from aircraft, says Syrian Observatory for Human RightsMon Dec 30 2013 - 01:00
Assassination of former Lebanese minister condemnedMohamad Shatah and five others killed by car bomb in central BeirutSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
Muslim Brotherhood members held as Egypt declares group a terrorist organisationAt least 38 members arrested in Cairo on terrorism chargesFri Dec 27 2013 - 01:00
Egypt jails key activists of 2011 uprisingApril 6th movement to hold countrywide protests on anniversary of revolutionMon Dec 23 2013 - 01:00