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ANKARA — Turkey said on Friday it might set up a border "buffer zone" to protect growing numbers of Syrian…

CAIRO/BEIRUT — Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, said he would urge President Bashar al-Assad and his foes to…

BEIRUT — The UN humanitarian chief toured the shattered Syrian district of Baba Amr on Wednesday but found most residents…

Freedom of association in Egypt is suffering “the worst crackdown since [civil society’s] emergence in 1985,” the Cairo Institute for…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will grant UN inspectors access to a military complex where the UN nuclear agency suspects secret…

  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran Canadian prosecutor Norman Farrell to be the new prosecutor of the special tribunal investigating the assassination of…

GENEVA — Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the new United Nations-Arab League envoy on Syria, called on Friday on…

VIENNA — Iran wants more talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, its ambassador to the body said, despite what one Western…

Egypt on Wednesday said it rejected a United Nations offer to help the country write its new constitution, scheduled to…

BEIRUT — Syrian troops intensively shelled rebel-held neighborhoods in the restive central city of Homs Friday, a day after the…