They describe the fear that drove them from a country they'd grown to love, along with the uncertainty they now face.
Parliamentary voting results in a virtual tie between conservatives and the center-left, denying the prime minister a mandate to pursue his hawkish policies. |
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ZAATARI, Jordan — This sprawling tent city, by far the largest refugee camp for Syrians fleeing their war-ravaged nation, is...
MOSCOW — Russia is sending two airplanes to evacuate scores of its citizens from longtime ally Syria, Moscow said Monday, in the...
BEIRUT — It was on a bus ride home from college that Ahmed lost his faith in the Syrian revolution.
JERUSALEM — As Israelis head to the polls Tuesday, most are expecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party to secure the...
TEHRAN — A pair of thieves caught in the act on a video posted to YouTube were executed at dawn on a residential street Sunday by a...
RAMTHA, Jordan — As a child and young adult, the woman now known as Umm Riaan kept the worn photo carefully tucked away. Maybe the...
SANA, Yemen — Tawakul Karman hurried through the morning chill with the burden of a rebel who has crossed from...
BEIRUT — Dozens of people died in two explosions minutes apart Tuesday at a university in the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a...
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces pressed an ongoing offensive Monday aimed at dislodging rebels from the vicinity of the capital,...
CAIRO — Former President Hosni Mubarak was granted a new murder trial by an Egyptian appeals court Sunday, a ruling that threatens...
BEIRUT — Syrian forces and antigovernment rebels fought bruising skirmishes Saturday in the rubble of Dariya, a war-torn western...
BEIRUT – After weeks of fighting, Syrian rebels said Friday that they had seized a strategic air base in northwestern Idlib province,...
That the Egyptian revolution of early 2011 was launched via Facebook is just one of the many extraordinary aspects of the whirlwind movement...
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition fighters Wednesday released 48 Iranians captured in August in exchange for the freeing of at least 2,130...
BEIRUT — The World Food Program said Tuesday that Syria's civil war has blocked the United Nations agency from delivering aid to at...
BEIRUT — Ignoring mounting casualties and dwindling support, Syrian President Bashar Assad made clear to the world Sunday in his first...
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi replaced Egypt's finance and interior ministers Sunday in a Cabinet reshuffle aimed at calming growing...
SANA, Yemen — Lithe men with ladders fan through the grove in the morning light. They joke and taunt. Hands quick in grit and shadow,...
BEIRUT — Sandra Alloush says she loved her work as an announcer for an official Syrian television news channel, and saw it as a way to...
BEIRUT — Fighting raged around the suburbs of the Syrian capital Friday, as rebels sought to gain control of a ring of farming,...
Al Jazeera has built a formidable presence around the globe, but the Qatar news service has struggled to establish itself in the United...
BEIRUT — Rebel fighters and government forces on Thursday battled for control of two strategic airports in northern Syria, the loss of...
JERUSALEM — Two years after construction began, Israel has finished the bulk of the work on a fence along its border with Egypt.
CAIRO — Many of Egypt's twentysomething generation, hungry for a just society and economic opportunities, say they see themselves as...
TEHRAN — As rebel forces advance and longtime allies in Moscow distance themselves, Syria's most faithful friend is recalculating as...
BEIRUT — Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi made a new push Thursday to draw Syrian officials and rebels into negotiations, aiming to...
BEIRUT — Twenty people were killed Wednesday in fighting in a small Syrian village, according to opposition activists, as the...
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan — Rumors that four infants perished from the cold prompted an outcry last month at this sprawling site, by far...
AL SARRAIN, Yemen — The U.S. drone flew over a cluster of mud houses on a ridge and, according to Yemeni officials, locked onto...
JERUSALEM — As Israel heads toward national elections next month, there's no shortage of hot-button issues that might dominate the...
BEIRUT — Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ended a two-day visit to Syria on Monday after meeting with President Bashar Assad, but...
CAIRO — Egypt's opposition on Sunday charged that fraud was committed during a referendum on the nation's Islamist-backed...
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi apparently secured a victory at the polls Saturday for a new Egyptian constitution, locking the...
BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded in eastern Damascus on Saturday, an insurgent spokeswoman said, and the Syrian government reported that a...
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Thursday challenged the Obama administration's plan for correcting flaws exposed by the...
JERUSALEM — Israel's political left cheered when newly installed Labor Party head Shelly Yachimovich led the faction from near-...
WASHINGTON — Four senior State Department officials resigned under pressure Wednesday after an independent review board determined...
WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on...
BEIRUT — Thousands of residents were fleeing a densely populated Palestinian district outside Damascus Monday amid rumors that...
CAIRO — Egypt's public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi last month, resigned from his post Monday amid ongoing tension...
WASHINGTON — A high-level State Department investigative panel turned over a secret report Monday assessing blame for the deadly...
CAIRO –- Approval of Egypt's controversial draft constitution in an initial round of voting revealed the grass-roots power of...
BEIRUT — Battles raged Sunday in a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp outside Damascus as Syrian government troops pressed an...
CAIRO — Egyptians began voting Saturday on a constitution that sharpens divisions between Islamists and secularists and intensifies...
WASHINGTON — President Obama dropped embattled United Nations envoy Susan Rice from consideration as his next secretary of State,...
MOSCOW — A high-level Russian diplomat conceded Thursday that Syrian rebels could succeed in ousting President Bashar Assad,...
JERUSALEM — Israel's attorney general said Thursday that he would charge Avigdor Lieberman, the nation's combative foreign minister,...
CAIRO — Egypt's leading opposition group urged its followers Wednesday to vote against an Islamist-inspired draft constitution, ending...
BEIRUT — The United States faced a growing backlash Wednesday for its decision to blacklist a Syrian rebel faction because of...
BEIRUT —The rocket man vows that his hometown will never again face aerial bombardment.
CAIRO — Egypt's volatile political fault lines were shaken Tuesday as rival protests echoed across the capital over the fate of a...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has formally designated a rebel group fighting in Syria as a terrorist organization in an effort...
CAIRO — Knots of men argue politics, barefoot boys grip stones, graffiti blooms, banners unfurl and wind whistles through the tents of...
BEIRUT — Russia said Sunday that it has no intention of pushing for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, as international negotiators...
CAIRO — Egypt's main opposition groups rejected President Mohamed Morsi's weekend move to ease political tensions as the country...
JABALIYA, Gaza Strip — As tens of thousands of Gazans celebrated Hamas' 25th anniversary Saturday, Mohamed Mustafa Abdallah huddled by...
MT. GERIZIM, West Bank — When Ben Yehuda Altif got engaged to his first cousin Mazal, there was no problem winning the blessing of...
CAIRO — In a political reversal to calm weeks of unrest, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi early Sunday rescinded much of last month&...
WASHINGTON — With the Syrian civil war apparently near a turning point, Obama administration officials are finding their ability to...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Late that evening, Abdel Hakim Ibrahim finally confirmed his father's worst fear: He had left for Syria.
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of Egyptians broke through barbed wire and marched to the presidential palace Friday demanding that...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal set foot in the Gaza Strip for the first time Friday, emerging from the...
CAIRO — With tanks guarding his palace and officials defecting from his government, besieged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on...
DAMASCUS, Syria — The young Syrian mother had just fed her baby girl and put her down for a nap. The woman's husband was at work.
WASHINGTON — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency acknowledged Thursday that inspectors had made no progress in a...
CAIRO — Anger between Egypt's rival political camps erupted into street battles Wednesday after Islamist supporters of President...
TEHRAN — His son is named after the river born where the Tigris and Euphrates meet. His wife once complained that he loved a rare...
BEIRUT — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday agreed to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along the Turkish border...
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of protesters angered by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's expanded powers and a much-criticized proposed...
BEIRUT — The United States bluntly warned Syrian President Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons as his forces lose ground to...
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