International Monetary Fund officials expressed hope and pledged support for Syria while sharing concerns about Libya after recent talks with representatives of the two countries. Both Middle Eastern ...

The Russian Navy is not out of the Mediterranean Sea. Momentous, once-in-a-generation geopolitical changes are underway in the Middle East. Since November of last year, with the sweeping away of the ...

BEIRUT (AP) - Taking inspiration from the rapid unraveling of the regime in Libya, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets Monday and taunted President Bashar Assad with shouts that his family's ...

Syria is conducting repression of its own people without interference, and, in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is hanging on longer than expected. Is NATO prepared to protect civilians for humanitarian reasons ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace processes for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people, denouncing the "monstrous ...

Libya’s eastern authorities have halted their collaboration with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) ...

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Libya has been mired in conflict since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with rival administrations in the east and the west battling for supremacy. Turkey and Qatar have ...

Backed by U.S. sanctions relief and Arab cooperation through Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Washington aims to tie Syria’s ...

The beefy Libyan revolutionary field commander turned politician rose from the beige couch to greet his new Syrian guest, who pulled up a chair to join the two other Syrian men seated in a semicircle ...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that military action was an option in dealing with Syria, but he and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey sounded really reluctant about ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Now that he has called for Syria's leader to leave, U.S. President Barack Obama faces the daunting challenge of smoothing the way to a post-Assad era -- just as another Arab ...