Monthly Archives: January 2010

Clashes broke out Thursday in southern Egypt between more than 2,000 Christian Copts and police after the Christmas Eve killing of six Copts in a drive-by shooting, police officials said.

Yemeni security forces, under U.S. pressure to rein in extremists, Wednesday captured a key al-Qaeda leader believed behind threats that saw foreign embassies in Sana’a hastily bolting their doors, police said.

Egyptian security forces and Palestinians clashed at the Gaza border on Wednesday over the delay of an international aid convoy, killing one Egyptian border guard and wounding 10 Palestinians.

If Israel were to attack Hizbullah in Lebanon, Syria would respond and not sit idly by, the Katari Al Watan newspaper quoted Syrian sources as saying in a report published Wednesday.

Iraq plans to use United Nations channels to seek billions of dollars in damages from Israel for the 1981 surprise strike on its nuclear facility at Osarik, according to Iraqi legislator Mohammed Naji Mohammed.

The Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed a rocket launching cell that was preparing to launch a missile on southern Israel following an earlier Kassam rocket attack several hours earlier. One terrorist was killed and three others were wounded, one of them critically.

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ghumuriya reports a new initiative proposed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, based on the premise that allowing Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria would be an Arab “concession.”

DEARBORN, Mich. -- About 15 Arab-American students at Edsel Ford High School are in trouble over a sweatshirt they had made over the holiday break.

Yemen has sent thousands of security forces to take part in a campaign against al-Qaeda in three provinces, and authorities have detained five suspected fighters from the group, a security source said on Tuesday.

Britain will introduce its first full-body scanners at London's Heathrow airport in about three weeks' time in the wake of the failed Detroit plane bombing, a minister said Tuesday.