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CAIRO (Reuters) - Gulf Arabs told Russia in blunt language on Saturday its failure to take a tough line on Syria had allowed killing to continue and urged Moscow to back an Arab peace effort that includes a call for Russian ally President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. Qatar, which with Saudi...

AP - Syria's government has withdrawn heavy weapons from inside cities and freed about 3,500 prisoners but security forces continue to kill protesters even with foreign monitors in the country, the Arab League chief said Monday. More...

AP - The Arab League overwhelmingly approved sanctions Sunday against Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly eight-month crackdown on dissent, an unprecedented move by the League against an Arab state. More...

AP - Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League's vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising. More...

An Ohio student group's campaign has started a firestorm of debate in Canada and abroad over whether wearing Arab, Spanish and other ethnically inspired garb is feeding racism. More...

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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Persian Gulf states have suspended efforts to ease embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh from office after the president once again balked at signing a deal with opposition leaders, the group announced early Monday. The decision came after an emergency meeting of...

(CNN) -- Palestinian leaders are requesting a special meeting of the Arab League in the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech calling for an approximate return to the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East War. The meeting of the Arab Peace Initiative will focus on Israel's...

AMMAN, Jordan – Heeding a call from Palestinian Facebook organizers, several hundred Jordanians took to the streets of the capital Friday demanding a sovereign Palestinian state and that refugees be given the right to return home. Palestinian youth groups called for protests in the West Bank...

Jerusalem -- Palestinians threw stones and police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them Wednesday as right-wing Israeli activists marched in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. Several hundred police officers were deployed in northern Israel ahead of the march, according to police. The...

Arab League chief visits Gaza GAZA, (UPI) -- The leader of the Arab League visited Gaza Sunday, the first senior Arab official to do so since Hamas took control in 2007, officials said. The visit by league Secretary-General Amr Moussa was partly to add to the pressure on Israel to end its Gaza...