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A Russian court paved the way for a potential closure of video-sharing website YouTube by banning an anti-Islam video on Monday that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world.

Israel's foreign minister seemed to contradict Netanyahu by asserting that sanctions against Iran are succeeding.

Women constitute the majority sex in Egypt and played key roles in its revolution. But their government appears to have cast them aside.

Violence over the film Muslims say insults the Prophet Muhammad may cut Egypt tourism; but some are still hopeful of many visitors.

The Biafra War ended in 1970, but sectarian violence still rages in Nigeria. Chinua Achebe's new memoir recalls that bloody conflict with an eye toward preventing new ones.

Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye and had been a member of the Saudi Arabian branch of Muslim Brotherhood in his youth, his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed in a video posted online Wednesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shifted his tone from explosive to relatively reconciliatory at the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday while his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi, in his debut address, called for a negotiated settlement in Syria, which countered with the comments of the Qatari leader who called for armed intervention to end the crisis.

It seems like only yesterday we were lauding the role technology played in unleashing the Arab Spring and now we lament its role in a deadly Arab winter of violence and mass hysteria.

Addressing the U.N., President Obama touched on Syria, Iran's nukes and the "crude and disgusting" film "Innocence of Muslims."

The Republican team tries to salvage Ohio as Crossroads launches a new attack on Obama.

The head of the U.N.'s Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization spoke to reporters about preventing another Cuban Missile Crisis.

An Egyptian court on Monday upheld the sentence on 14 militants for the deaths of 13 people in the attacks that happened in the Sinai desert in 2011.

Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi, who is on his maiden visit to the U.S., is urging Washington to change its approach to the Arab world and adjust to its transformation.

YouTube's "Innocence of Muslims" stayed up after a California judge refused a ban, but 19 Pakistanis were killed in demonstrations.

Violent protesters in Peshawar, Pakistan, torched two movie theaters over anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims."

Israel Defense Forces have thwarted a potential large-scale terrorist attack along the border with Egypt, killing three terrorists.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have been fomenting violence and serving Western interests.

As outrage over the "Innocence of Muslims" film and controversial cartoons published in Paris rages here's a sample of opinions being expressed in regional media outlets.

Protests erupted in Kabul Thursday for the first time against the cartoons published Wednesday by a French weekly even as the protests against U.S. over an anti-Islamic video continued.

A Harvard historian has unveiled a fourth-century fragment of Coptic writing that suggests that some early Christians might have believed Jesus was married.

The leader of Lebanon's militant Islamist political party Hezbollah has issued a proclamation calling for the death of the producers of the highly controversial film, Innocence of Muslims, which has sparked outrage, protests and violent attacks throughout the Islamic world.