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The brother of the Islamist assassin of former president Anwar Sadat returned to Egypt from exile in Iran on Sunday and surrendered to the authorities, an AFP correspondent reported.
Mohamed Showky al-Islambouli, who was sentenced to death in...
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that if Egypt asked to increase its troops in the Sinai peninsula, the request would be brought before the security cabinet, public radio said.
Netanyahu's remarks were made at...
TRIPOLI - Libyan rebels captured the Ras Jdir border post on the frontier with Tunisia, which it was feared Muammer Qadhafi might use to escape, as the hunt for the fugitive strongman continued on Saturday.
While fighting was still under way on...
TRIPOLI - Libyan rebels have declared the Qadhafi era over after storming Tripoli, but one of the veteran strongman's sons insisted the battle was far from done as he defiantly refuted reports of his arrest.
Exultant rebel fighters packed in...
Cairo police arrested a man who allegedly 'insulted Islam' in postings on Facebook after they tracked him down through his internet address, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
The agency said the 23-year-old, identified only as...
TEHRAN - Iran has sentenced two American hikers detained in the Islamic republic to eight years in prison on charges of "illegal entry" and "espionage," the state television website reported Saturday.
"According to an...
JERUSALEM - Israeli diplomatic officials are holding discussions on Egypt's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel, the foreign ministry spokesperson told AFP on Saturday.
"There was such an Egyptian announcement and we are holding...
JAMRUD, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck a crowded Pakistan mosque on Friday, killing 48 people and wounding more than 100 during Ramadan prayers, in the country's deadliest attack for three months.
Blood was splattered across the mosque's...
An Egyptian policeman has been reportedly killed on Friday in a gunfight near the border with Israel and another officer is in a coma after being shot in the head.
Security officials said that it was not still known who had attacked the police...
Egypt's military chief of staff Sami Enan headed to Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths of three policemen killed by Israeli gunfire the previous day, a military source said.
"Enan will head a committee that will investigate the deaths of...
