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Baghdad -- In a gloomy room in his parents' home, heavy with the smell of medicine, Iraqi police officer Jaafar Ali lies motionless, his body paralyzed by a bullet to the head fired by an Al-Qaeda militant.
"We have spent six years now as...
Ajdabiyah -- The Libyan army has reinforced positions around the eastern oil town of Brega and dug in its long-range missile batteries to conceal them from attacks by NATO warplanes, a rebel army officer said on Tuesday.
Rebels intent on...
CAIRO - An Egyptian court ruled on Tuesday that the sale of state land to Palm Hills Development, the country's second-biggest listed developer, was illegal and scrapped the contract.
A judicial panel said in March the sale was illegal because...
Tripoli -- Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Qadhafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city center.
Qadhafi's forces were also...
Benghazi -- While Libyan rebels fire rockets and heavy machine guns against Muammar Qadhafi's troops in the east, a group of young volunteers are adding newsprint, television cameras and microphones to the arsenal.
Writers, cartoonists and...
Benghazi -- Forces loyal to Muammar Qadhafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.
"The situation is very dangerous," rebel...
Casablanca -- Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February.
Desperate to avoid the turmoil...
Juba -- At least 55 fighters were killed when South Sudan's army clashed with a rebel militia, a state minister said on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence across the territory ahead of its independence in July.
Scores of troops and...
Amman -- Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said on Sunday, as popular opposition to Syria's authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad increased following bloody attacks on pro-democracy protesters.
Security...
Nablus -- A Palestinian policeman shot dead an Israeli and wounded four others after they entered a holy site in a West Bank city without permission on Sunday, the Israeli military said.
The group, described by a security official from a Israeli...
