Baghdad (dpa) – Nine Arab heads of state have confirmed participation in next week's Arab League summit in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.
“More presidents and kings continue to say they will come to Baghdad. I think until now nine have confirmed their attendance. We (...)
Tripoli (dpa) – One person was killed and eight injured when gunmen attacked a rally of pro-federalists in the Libyan city of Benghazi, Libyan media reported Saturday, citing medical sources.
Unknown people fired on a crowd gathering in Freedom Square in Benghazi late Friday to show support for (...)
Nouakchott (dpa) – Mauritanian authorities have arrested Abdullah al-Senussi, the chief of the intelligence service in the ousted regime of Libya's slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, they announced Saturday.
Al-Senussi was arrested at the Nouakchott airport upon his arrival aboard a flight from (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Syrian government troops Sunday pounded the dissident town of Rastan in the central province of Homs, opposition activists reported.
The troops used planes and fired artillery shells in their attack on the positions of rebel fighters in the town, added the activists.
The report (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Insurgents with links to al-Qaeda Sunday attacked Yemeni troops and seized their hardware in the southern province of Abyan, the Yemeni website Mareb Press reported, quoting a military source.
The attackers seized tanks, guns and ammunition belonging to the government forces, (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – At least 6 government soldiers were killed Sunday when insurgents linked to al-Qaeda attacked military positions in southern Yemen, military sources told the Yemeni website Mareb Press, signalling a rise in the terrorist organization's action since a new president was sworn (...)
CAIRO (dpa): US pro-democracy activists left Egypt aboard a US military plane on Thursday, an Egyptian source at Cairo airport said, after a travel ban was lifted.
The activists, who received a travel ban for working for non-governmental organizations accused by Egypt of receiving foreign (...)
CAIRO (dpa): Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested Sayf al-Adl, a top al-Qaeda military leader, upon his arrival in the country from Pakistan, sources at Cairo airport said.
Al-Adl, believed to be in his fifties, has been on Egypt's wanted list since 1994 on charges of involvement in (...)
Sana'a (dpa)- At least two people were killed Sunday in fighting between army soldiers and insurgents in the central Yemeni town of Rada'a, reported local media.
The fighting started when a unit from the elite Republican Guards arrived in Rada'a, some 150 kilometers south-east of the capital (...)
Cairo (dpa) – At least four people were killed Wednesday in renewed clashes between two rival ethnic groups in a remote Libyan town, according to a military official.
Ten were injured in the fighting that shattered a shaky truce between the Arab Zwai and the African Tebu groups in the (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Yemeni authorities have tightened security in the south of the country where secessionists are calling for a boycott of the early one-candidate presidential election, local media reported on Sunday.
A large contingent of troops, backed by dozens of armored vehicles, has been (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Two judicial officials were shot dead in the Syrian province of Idlib near the border with Turkey on Sunday, Syria's official news agency SANA reported.
Idlib Prosecutor General Nidal Ghazal and the judge Mohammed Zyada were killed when an “armed terrorist group” shot at the car (...)
Dubai (dpa) – Dubai-based club Al Wasl Saturday dismissed reports of the sacking of coach Diego Maradona, saying it has “confidence” in the Argentine football legend.
The club urged in a statement the media not to circulate “rumors or reports about the club without verifying them.”
The (...)
Dubai (dpa) – The head of the Dubai-based club Al Wasl, Marwan bin Bayat, Wednesday denied strains in ties with with coach Diego Maradona after the Argentine recently threatened to quit coaching the team over a restrictive budget for transfers.
“Our relations with Maradona are strong. We are (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Arab League foreign ministers are to meet in Cairo Sunday to discuss a proposal for a joint observer mission with the United Nations to Syria, according to sources at the pan-Arab body.
The talks are to be preceded by a meeting of the foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – At least 16 people were injured when separatists attacked pro-reform activists in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, a local news website reported Sunday.
Hundreds from the Southern Movement, which is pushing for the separation of southern Yemen, late Saturday torched tents pitched (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Authorities in Niger have put Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, under house arrest after he said in a television interview that an uprising was imminent in his homeland, a Libyan official said Sunday.
“The move followed contacts between the two (...)
Baghdad (dpa) – Iraqi authorities Wednesday executed 14 people convicted of terrorism and criminal charges, the Iraqi Alsumaria News website reported.
Justice Ministry spokesman Haider al-Saadi was quoted by the website as saying a leading militant in the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq was (...)
Cairo (dpa) – The Kuwaiti government resigned on Sunday, four days after the Islamist-led opposition made major gains in the Gulf country's early parliamentary elections.
Kuwait's ruler, Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, accepted the resignation and requested the cabinet members to keep their posts until (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Two people were killed and dozens injured in fighting in the southern Yemeni city of Aden between supporters and opponents of early presidential elections, reported the Yemeni website Mareb Press on Saturday.
The clashes began late Friday between members of the separatist Southern (...)
Kuwait City (dpa) – Kuwaitis began casting ballots Thursday in parliamentary elections seen as crucial to the future of the oil-rich Gulf country, where the opposition is demanding reforms.
Around 276 parliamentary hopefuls, including 22 women, are contesting the election, which was preceded by (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Three insurgents linked to al-Qaeda were killed in clashes with government forces on the outskirts of a Yemeni town, official website Almotamar Net reported Wednesday, citing a local source.
One elite Republican Guards soldier was also killed, and four injured, in the fighting (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – At least three soldiers were killed Wednesday when gunmen attacked them near Yemen's eastern province of Mareb, local media reported.
The gunmen ambushed the military convoy on its way to the province, reported the Yemeni website Mareb Press citing local sources.
The site (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Syrian rebels are holding seven Iranians, including five military experts, the deputy chief of the dissident Syrian Free Army Colonel Malek al-Kurdi said in remarks published on Saturday.
The Iranians were arrested in the restive Syrian city of Homs, al-Kurdi told the pan-Arab (...)
Baghdad (dpa)- At least nine people were killed Friday in a suicide attack near a funeral procession in a mainly Shiite area of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, said medical and security sources.
Twenty others were injured when the attacker blew himself up inside a car as the mourners were passing (...)