The Mideast

Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party.

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four Al Qaeda militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials.

Yemeni security officials say a suspected US drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants in the country's south.

Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country.

Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said.

Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack.

Syrian activists say that a wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels.

Iraqi authorities say gunmen have broken into the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family.

The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders.

Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi rallied peacefully in...

Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded in a commericial area in a mainly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 20.

Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people.