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SANAA — FBI director Robert Mueller and Yemen's new president pledged to step up the fight against Al-Qaeda Tuesday only hours after government forces fought their way to the heart of a southern Yemeni city that...
A court upheld Tuesday the jail sentence of one of the Arab world's most famous comedic actors for insulting Islam in his films.
Haram misdemeanor court sentenced Adel Imam Tuesday to three months in jail and fined him LE100.
Imam was...
Egypt's interim government has canceled the national cup competition, ending all football in the country this season.
The Egyptian Football Association says that the Ministry of Interior won't allow scheduled Egyptian Cup games to be played...
MANAMA, Bahrain — Security forces in Bahrain set up checkpoints and stationed armored vehicles in anti-government strongholds Sunday to confront possible protests coinciding with the Gulf nation's Formula One Grand Prix.
The beefed-up...
BEIRUT — Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day after the Security Council voted to expand the number of United Nations truce monitors to 300 members in hopes of salvaging...
Israel’s government is telling its citizens to immediately leave Egypt’s Sinai desert peninsula, citing warnings of planned attacks against them.
Spokesperson Ofir Gendelman said Saturday that the country has “concrete information...
BEIRUT — Syrian troops shelled a rebel-held neighborhood and sent reinforcements to border areas as the opposition called for fresh protests Friday after the United Nations accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of failing to honor a...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is opening a secret detention center to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security official has told The Associated...
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized Wednesday for gruesome, newly revealed photographs that show American soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. He said war can lead young troops to...
OSLO, Norway — Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik thought he had only a slim chance of escaping Norway's capital alive after setting off a bomb in the government district on 22 July, he told a court Thursday.
The anti-Muslim...
