Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have continued to protest in Fallujah and other in Iraqi cities against the Shia-led government in Baghdad.

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime erupted in March 2011, a top UN official said on Wednesday.

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that 2013 would be the year for the Palestinian independence.

At least 23 people have been killed and scores of others wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq.

Nearly 400 people were reported dead in Syria Saturday, including some 150 charred corpses that were found in Deir Baalba in Homs, according to activist media.

Indian Muslim youth are complaining of the government’s failure to enroll them in its work schemes, criticizing ‘scanty’ socio-economic conditions of the religious minority.

A Russian airliner split into pieces after it slid off the runway and crashed onto a highway outside Moscow on Saturday, killing four of the 12 crew on board and leaving smoking chunks of fuselage on the icy road.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is to deliver a speech in front of the upper house of legislature on Saturday, expected to focus on plans to revive the country’s faltering economy and renew dialogue calls with the opposition, reported Al Arabiya.

Russia, one of the few powers to maintain links with the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, has proposed negotiations with the main opposition coalistion, but the group’s leader told Al Jazeera they will not travel to Moscow for talks. Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, told a news conference on Friday that Russia has contacted […]

Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken part in protests along a major western highway and in other parts of the country in fresh rallies against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Massive demonstrations took place along a major highway near the city of Fallujah on Friday, declaring the day a “Friday of Honour”. […]