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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Sana'a (dpa)- At least 15 insurgents, suspected of links with al-Qaeda, were killed Sunday in fierce clashes with the army in southern Yemen, reported local media.
The fighting raged in the northern and eastern parts of Zinjibar, the capital of (...)
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, (...)
Baghdad (dpa) – At least 32 people were killed Thursday in car bomb and machine gun attacks in several areas of Baghdad, Arab media reported.
The first attack occurred during the morning rush hour in the mainly Shiite Muslim district of Karrada (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian government forces on Thursday intensified their attacks on several dissident areas, reportedly killing at least 56 people, despite sharp international condemnation.
The onslaught targeted the central province of Homs, mainly (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Cairo (dpa) – Key figures in the regime of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, including his two sons, are to be separated across five different prisons, Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim announced on Sunday.
The decision was made (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)