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By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — A mechanic hammered a fender and boys wandered amid tin and rust as Adham Bishr, his opinions flaring on an agitated afternoon...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
AGA, Egypt — After an unfriendly journalist was tossed off, Amr Moussa's campaign bus headed north to the Nile Delta, where barefoot...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
TEL AVIV — With the acquisition this month of a sixth German-made submarine, Israel is seeking to position itself as the region's...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egyptians gathered in living rooms and cafes Thursday night to mark another first in their troubled political odyssey toward a...
By Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The CIA takedown of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner involved an international sting operation with a...
By a Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Violence in Syria has continued amid a cease-fire, increasing concern that the country is descending into a civil war that...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — The surprise unity government announced Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has many observers predicting...
By Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Opposition activists across Syria on Monday boycotted parliamentary elections they dismissed as illegitimate, and instead...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — On a recent trip to a city on the Persian Gulf, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood in the back of a pickup as it...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — More than a year after the uprising began, only 50 people were still around to protest in a Syrian town of burned buildings...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — The stage along the sea was a politically crafted advertisement for Egypt's diversity: An unveiled woman chatted...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — At least four students were killed, dozens injured and about 200 arrested Thursday when Syrian government forces stormed...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when unknown attackers armed with guns and firebombs clashed with protesters near...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM —Israel'smove toward early elections is the latest sign that its threatened attack againstIran'snuclear facilities is...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — Even with the commander of the United Nations monitoring mission in place in Syria, explosions and attacks continued Monday...
By Brian Bennett and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor Monday defended using drones to launch missiles against militants in...
By Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the man said to have had the most...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
UMM AL FAHM, Israel — He's an Israeli-born Islamist whom the government considers so dangerous he's been banned from stepping foot...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — The traditional Passover retelling of Exodus was barely underway in 2002 when Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer got...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Osama Abdel Hadi was born into the Muslim Brotherhood. His father, a history professor, was respected within the Islamic...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranian officials expressed skepticism Saturday about possible Obama administration support for allowing the country to...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In what would be a significant concession, Obama administration officials say they could support allowing Iran to...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Two weeks after a supposed cease-fire was meant to bring an end to violence in Syria, an explosion Friday ripped through...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — United Nations monitors on Thursday visited the scene of an explosion in the Syrian city of Hama that antigovernment...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — As violence continues to rage across Syria, the United Nations monitoring mission faced mounting criticism and pressure...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The decorum of diplomacy has devolved into embarrassing headlines and testy one-liners in the increasingly strained...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — The presence of United Nations-backed monitors in Syria is providing only brief respites from violence and in some cases...
By Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The United States and European Union slapped Syria with additional sanctions Monday, as international pressure and a United...
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Internet and social media helped fuel last year's "Arab Spring" pro-democracy uprisings. Now, the Obama...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Amid the collapse of a multibillion-dollar natural gas agreement between Egypt and Israel that had been in place since...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Cars raced and protests echoed across the island kingdom of Bahrain on Sunday as the embattled royal family gambled on the...
By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — When filmmaker and Egyptian democracy activist Amr Salama watched Hosni Mubarak's regime collapse in 2011, he couldn't have...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — The United Nations Security Council on Saturday authorized a full monitoring mission of up to 300 observers in Syria as the...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Large antigovernment demonstrations filled the streets of Syria on Friday despite reports of regime forces trying to...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
IDLIB, Syria — In a rickety office building once used by agricultural engineers in the village of Hazano, rebels with the Missiles...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syria and the United Nations reached a preliminary agreement Thursday on a monitoring mission to supervise a shaky cease-...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — United Nations monitors in Syria on Wednesday witnessed government forces shooting at protesters in a suburb of Damascus, the...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The well-tailored spy and the dueling Islamists are out.
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — They trundle like a lost parade, rolling metal cylinders through the dust beneath the broken cliffs rising above the City of...
By Los Angeles Times staff
BEIRUT — Six United Nations observers arrived in the capital of Syria on Sunday night to begin monitoring a cease-fire even as...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's volatile presidential race was jolted Saturday when the election commission disqualified three controversial front-...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Iran and six world powers took a modest step toward resolving their dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, agreeing...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — As the cease-fire in Syria appeared to be unraveling, the U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved sending as...
BEIRUT — Two days into a fragile truce, and the question many are asking is, when is a cease-fire no longer a cease-fire?
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Just hours into a cease-fire between the Syrian government and the opposition, the truce was already on shaky ground as...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The stakes will be high when diplomats from six world powers meet with Iranian officials here over the weekend to...
By Rima Marrouch
BEIRUT — A peace plan deadline for pulling back government forces in Syria came and went Tuesday as attacks across much of the country...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
To the surprise of hardly anyone, the peace plan for Syria brokered by U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan is collapsing in a hail of bullets...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM —Israel's government is scrambling to find ways to save some of the unauthorized West Bank settlements it once promised to...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Mohammad Fahad Al-Qahtani is a busy man with a dangerous passion.
By Rima Marrouch
Prospects for a cease-fire in Syria further dimmed Monday when fighting spilled over the border into Turkey and Lebanon, leaving at least...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's curious gallery of presidential candidates reveals how much the nation has changed yet how deeply it still echoes with...
By Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The United Nations-backed peace plan to end violence in Syria appeared to unravel Sunday as the Syrian government...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
REYHANLI, Turkey — Somewhere in Syria near the border with Turkey, thousands of refugees are hunkered down in a makeshift camp, afraid...
By Glen Johnson, Los Angeles Times
TRIPOLI, Libya — Ahmed Mostafa and his friends paid thousands of dollars among them to get to Libya recently, traveling with gangs...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
AREHA, Syria — Five times a day, for 15 years, the muezzin made the call to prayer from the mosque's minaret, which rose high above...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The ragged effigy of a fallen leader dangles from a lamppost over the remnants of a dying revolution.
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The men gathering outside the yellow mosque agreed: Adulterers should be stoned to death, the hands of thieves cut off.
By a Times Staff Writer
Just days before the deadline for Syria to abide by a United Nations-backed peace plan, 54 people were reported killed across the country...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — He doesn't have a cellphone and doesn't use regular phones. He avoids his home and mostly ventures out under cover...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT — Syria has agreed to an April 10 deadline to abide by a U.N.-backed peace plan that would require its forces to stop...
By Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A surveillance aircraft operated by the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command flew over southeastern Yemen on the evening...
By Los Angeles Times Staff
IDLIB, Syria — Scattered around the house that Abu Nadim once shared with his wife and five children are hints of its former...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood chose a religiously conservative businessman as its presidential candidate Saturday, a provocative move...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
EL HUJAYRAT, Egypt — The sheik walked through his courtyard to a room where sins are purged.
From a Times staff writer
BEIRUT -- Clashes and shelling were reported across Syria on Friday, even as the former secretary-general of the United Nations said he...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi royal family prizes stability as much as the oil that secures its wealth, but political upheaval...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — While gliding to a surprisingly easy victory over Kadima party Chairwoman Tzipi Livni, Israel's newly elected opposition...
By Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
The cigarette smoke hovers dense inside the neighborhood cafe. Young patrons knock back beers at greasy wooden tables. A heated debate rages...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
The Egyptian military stamps itself as protector of the nation, but behind this carefully tended mythology the army controls a multibillion-...
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