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BENGHAZI - Libyan rebels said Thursday they had captured some 100 fighters loyal to the country's ruler Moamer

Beating Gathafi's fighter jets

Rebels repulse attempt by Libyan government forces to recapture eastern city, its oil…

OUAGADOUGOU - The only filmmaker to twice win the grand prize at Africa's biggest film festival, Souleymane Cisse

'The wind is blowing away the authoritarian regimes or dynasties'

Filmmaker Souleymane Cisse proud of industry's focus on 'what's happening in North…

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Iran is directly or indirectly communicating with opposition

Talk to Hezbollah to talk to Hamas to talk to Egypt Muslim Brotherhood

Clinton: Iran, directly or indirectly, communicating with opposition groups in…

Libyan rebels fought intense battles to repel Moamer Gathafi's forces from the key eastern oil port of Brega

Libyan rebels remain in full control

Pro-Gathafi forces fail to recapture key Libyan eastern towns following fierce fighting that left ten…

DOHA - Qatar will hold soon consultative council elections, Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jaber al-Thani

Also under pressure to reform

Qatar pledges to 'achieve popular participation' as protests reach two Arab Gulf states.

 said…

As Arab regimes face unprecedented uprisings, Palestinian youths have launched their own 'revolution' -- seeking to

'The People Want the End of the Division'

Young Palestinians – via rallying, Facebook and Twitter - demand reconciliation between bitterly divided Fatah and…

The popular revolts shaking the Arab world have injected a sense of pride in peoples across the region often labelled as

The colors of revolution

Popular revolts shaking Arab world inject sense of pride in peoples often labelled as 'terrorists' or…

Young and unassuming, Fethi Terbil is the Libyan lawyer who dared to challenge Moamer Gathafi and whose arrest

A revolutionary without ambitions

Libyan Lawyer hero of anti-Gathafi revolt: Fethi Terbil.

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In a whirlpool of paint, Najah Kablan is busy making banners for the uprising against Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi's

'We were unafraid because we are all united'

Libyan women make strong contribution in anti-regime demos, create artistic ammunition for…

Pressure mounted Monday on Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi as anti-regime forces overran towns in his traditional

Tripoli is next

Libyan protest leaders establish transitional 'national council' in several eastern and western cities seized from regime.

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Morocco will be spared mass demonstrations sweeping other Middle Eastern and North African nations as long as the

Bolder and speedier reforms

Analysts stress Morocco has to embark on bolder, speedier reforms to fulfill Moroccans’ demands.

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Bahrain protesters showed no sign of retreat Thursday as an anti-government uprising entered its 11th day and

'We want a government elected by the people'

Bahraini uprising enters its 11th day as pro-democracy protestors insist regime must meet pre-conditions for…

TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi spoke Thursday to the elders of a town west of the capital where he said a

Libya's dissident-held east vowed to march on Tripoli

Ten people killed as pro-government forces attack rebellious Libyan town of…