Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing

Shagarab camp receives about 2,000 asylum-seekers monthly

UNHCR chief Guterres says some refugees who end up in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula are ‘killed for traffic of organs’.

By Ian Timberlake - SHAGARAB REFUGEE CAMP (Sudan)

Eritreans fleeing their…

RIYADH - The new head of the Saudi religious police said volunteers will no longer be allowed to serve in the force, in

Cautious reform

Sheikh Abdullatif says volunteers will no longer be allowed to serve, in apparent effort to reduce violations.

an apparent effort to reduce violations, media reports said on Monday.

"From now on there will be no more…

I knew all those years of sitting in darkened theaters on sunny afternoons, awash in movies new and old, stale popcorn

Though a decade into history, the events of 9/11 still have a powerful tug on the emotions of Americans, especially New Yorkers whose lives were profoundly changed, as Michael Winship observed after a preview of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”

and gallons of diet…

An influential group of former rebels who fought ousted dictator Moamer Kadhafi rejected the choice of the new chief of

The rejection of Mangush raises security concerns in Libya

Coalition of Libyan Thwars says it rejects anybody who is not among list of six candidates they proposed to NTC.

By Jay Deshmukh - TRIPOLI

army on Wednesday, raising fresh security…

The mayor and governor of New York voiced outrage Monday after a mosque was hit by a firebomb in an arson spree

Bloomberg has been staunch defender of city's Muslim population

Mayor, governor of New York voices outrage after mosque was hit by firebomb in arson spree, investigated by police as hate crime.

By Sebastian Smith - NEW YORK

that police said they were…

Fed by diplomatic tensions and election-year politics, talk about a coming conflict with Iran has reached a fever pitch

It started the same way with Iraq

By Dan De Luce - WASHINGTON

in the US capital.

Speculation of a possible war with Iran ebbs and flows, but a confluence of events has served to fuel dire predictions among politicians and pundits that war may…

A gun fight erupted in central Tripoli on Tuesday, killing two, as a group of former rebels from the western city of

Who will prevail first?

Gun fight erupts in central Tripoli, killing two, as ex-rebels from Misrata clash with unit of ex-fighters from Libyan capital.

By Jay Deshmukh – TRIPOL

Misrata clashed with a unit of ex-fighters from the…

Around 162,000 people, almost 80 percent of them civilians, were killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led

Level of violence has changed little from mid-2009

British NGO says around 162,000 people, almost 80 percent of them civilians, were killed in Iraq from start of 2003 US-led invasion.

By Prashant Rao –…

An Egyptian woman beaten by soldiers, a Syrian blogger detained for her work and the first Arab woman to win the

Mentality will not change in just one year

Challenging stereotypical image of housebound Arab woman, female protesters have faced tear gas, baton-wielding troops, sexual assault.

By Rana Moussaoui – BEIRUT

Nobel Peace Prize highlight the central role played by women in the…