Forces loyal to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi pounded protesters with heavy artillery west of Ajdabyia late Sunday and early Monday, forcing hundreds of residents and some rebel fighters to flee the key crossroads town.
The chief of Egypt’s outlawed Islamic-oriented Labor Party, Magdi Hussein, held talks with top Iranian diplomats in Tehran in a bid to thaw relations between the two nations now that a key US ally, Hosni Mubarak, is no longer president of Egypt.
Two car bombs exploded near an entrance to Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 15 others, security sources said.
Fifteen people have been killed in Ahwaz, a city in Iran's Khuzestan province, sources close to Al Arabiya said on Monday.
It was none other than Pharaoh whose mention of the “People of Israel†is the first such Biblical reference, 3323 years ago, using calculations by Serbian-born Eliezer Shulman, who was exiled to Siberia by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings.
Syrian protesters called for greater freedom Sunday as demonstrations spread across the country on its 65th Independence Day.
Three young Arab men from the Israeli city of Nazareth were indicted Sunday for creating a terrorist cell. The three named their cell “Certain Death for Zionism†(Nauwad Alzaheina Balamut), but did not succeed in carrying out any fatal attacks prior to their arrest.
Former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif of Egypt will stand trial in criminal court on charges of corruption, the authorities said Sunday afternoon.
Iran has tested a Sayyad-2 anti-aircraft missile system that, defense officials said, will be deployed throughout the country in the near future, the Fars News Agency reported.