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Washington -- The killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces was not a joint operation with Pakistan, the president of Pakistan said in an opinion column published on Monday.
President Asif Ali Zardari, writing in the Washington Post, also dismissed...
The head of Egypt's prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, condemned US troops' disposal of the body of Osama bin Laden at sea Monday as an affront to religious and human values.
Muslims set great store by interment in...
Amman -- Syrian security forces going house to house rounded up more people in a clampdown on pro-democracy unrest across the country on Monday, rights activists said, after taking control of Deraa, cradle of the uprising.
Human rights campaigners...
Egypt's state budget deficit, bloated after political turmoil rocked the economy, is forecast to widen to 9.38 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2011/12 fiscal year, the finance minister said.
That compares with an expected deficit...
Kabul -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban on Monday to cease fighting after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and added they should learn a lesson from his death.
"The Taliban must learn a lesson from this. The...
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
"Justice has been done," President Barack Obama...
Amman -- Syrian authorities are carrying out a wave of arrests in the city of Deraa in their latest move to crush protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, residents said on Sunday.
The residents said they had seen packed busloads of...
Amman -- Women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Deraa chanted "God is greatest against the tyrant" from rooftops in the night after troops backed by tanks intensified a crackdown on the city, a resident said.
Troops stormed into...
Benghazi -- A NATO air strike destroyed 45 vehicles of Muammar Qadhafi's forces after they had killed at least five civilians in fighting in two east Libyan towns, an oil official and a rebel spokesman said on Sunday.
Qadhafi forces entered the...
Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least...
