Iran has dismissed the latest US unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic as the continuation of the previous “irrational” approach adopted by Washington.
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri has blamed Israel for the “terrorist explosion” that rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs and accused the regime of trying to provoke Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has rejected a proposed plan by Interim President Adly Mansour to hold new presidential elections.
A district US judge has said that her court can’t order injunction against force-feeding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and US President Barak Obama is the only one who can stop the violation.
A powerful car bomb has hit Beirut’s southern suburbs leaving at least 53 people injured.
Egypt is set to vote on a new parliament by February 2014, after constitution amendments are approved in a referendum, a decree issued by the interim leader Adly Mansour’s says.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a ceasefire in Syria during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan urging everyone in the conflict to put down their arms.
At least 51 people were killed in a dawn attack on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outside an elite army base in Cairo, Egypt's emergency services said, revising an earlier toll.
Self-nominated prime minister of Syria’s militant groups, Ghassan Hitto, a long time US resident, has announced his resignation.
Two days of violence in Iraq killed 25 people, including six family members shot dead while returning from a wedding, police officers and doctors said on Monday.