Syrian Foreign Ministry says Damascus 'responded positively' to demand to send in Arab monitors in effort to end eight-month crackdown on protesters.

Egypt's top reformist leader said Sunday the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been ''decimated'' in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocating extremist ideas such as banning women from driving.

Palestinian sources tell Haaretz that Hamas is abandoning its headquarters in Syria and looking at other Arab states as alternative location for its political command center.

The high elections committee on Sunday released a comprehensive tally of votes in Egypt’s recent parliamentary poll, the first phase of which was held on Monday and Tuesday.

US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman expressed regrets Sunday that his words at a conference on the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe ''have been misinterpreted.''

Like every Friday, as part of the day school activities, 13-year-old Oceane Sluijzer goes to the sport training center in Neder-Over-Hembeek, a Brussels suburb, where she plays football.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday pardoned two Israeli businessmen jailed in the ex-Soviet state for trying to bribe a senior official over a multi-million compensation case.

The Justice and Freedom Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has rescinded its demand on Wednesday to form the new government in case the party receives a majority in parliament. On Thursday, it said that talk of the next government “premature.”

In interview with Avi Issacharoff, Palestinian PM says it 'was an honor for me to serve and I will continue to do so until my last day in the job.'

The creation of a pan-European legal task force to fight anti-Semitism, on the model of the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), was announced Thursday in Brussels at a conference of Jewish lawyers and legal experts from across the continent.