Monthly Archives: September 2009

Rafah: Egyptian officials said border guards have wounded an African migrant woman and arrested 18 men from Ethiopia and Eritrea trying to cross illegally into Israel.

President Barack Obama vowed Friday the United States would never falter in its battle against al-Qaeda and called for new national resolve on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

The extension of an archaeological tunnel under the City of David has caused upset among Palestinians,

Double bombings near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad killed at least three people and left dozens of others wounded on Saturday, security officials said.

Hizbullah terrorists attacked the northern Galilee for at least the third time this year, striking near Narhariya on the northwestern Mediterranean Coast.

JAISALMER: In the past four years, some 5,000 Hindus may have crossed over from Pakistan, never to return. It has not been easy abandoning their homes, sometimes even their families, but they say they had no choice: they had to flee the Taliban.

Pakistan said Friday it arrested the chief spokesman and a commander of Taliban militants in Swat, capturing the first most-wanted ring leaders behind a devastating two-year insurgency.

Recently, the Arab League declared that Arab countries would not normalize ties with Israel until Israel gives in to Arab demands. Senior officials in Egypt and Jordan have made it clear that their countries – both of which have signed peace deals with Israel – would resist normalization as well.

Former enemies from north and south Sudan failed on Thursday to reach an agreement on a key referendum law at the break of the latest round of talks with U.S. special envoy Scott Gration.