Monthly Archives: September 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office has said.

Bahrain has charged 23 nationals with forming a "terror network" aimed at toppling the government, the official BNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Egyptian police are investigating an anonymous poster campaign backing intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to take over the presidency from veteran incumbent Hosni Mubarak, an officer said on Saturday.

Jerusalem court rejects appeal by a Muslim teacher at a school owned by the Archdiocese of Cologne; Nadra Nimri said her rights were violated.

Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza into Israel on Saturday without causing any casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.

Tens of thousands of Muslims poured into the heavily guarded al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of Ramadan as Palestinians protested over newly re-launched peace talks.

Spokesman calls settlers a "legitimate target" and an army with thousands of weapons at their disposal; says the direct talks are a "media circus."

Ambassador says Islamist group amassing arsenal in southern Lebanon with long enough range to hit Eilat.

Ground Zero backer's lawyer says his client had no knowledge of the group's involvement with terrorist organization when he donated money.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said a U.N. investigating the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri did "not concern" him, because it had dismissed data provided by his armed group.