Monthly Archives: May 2011

Northwest Africa stands a good chance of providing the arena for possible Al-Qaeda retaliation for the killing by US Navy SEALs of Osama Bin Laden.

Syrian security forces killed at least six people with live fire Friday as thousands joined "Day of Defiance" demonstrations across the country, the Associated Press reports.

Information obtained during the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound indicates Al Qaeda was planning attacks in American cities on significant dates, according to a rail security alert issued Thursday.

Yemen's much hailed transition agreement brokered by the six-member Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) has been thrown into doubt as embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to personally sign it, Gulf News reports.

Syrian military forces deployed near the northern coastal city of Banias Thursday. Eyewitnesses saw dozens of soldiers and several tanks outside the city.

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said in a public statement Thursday any county attempting a raid in its territory like the one US conducted to kill Osama Bin Laden on May 2 would "face military consequences. "

Camilia Shehata, a woman at the center of a religious dispute between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, has appeared with her husband and child in a new picture published by Al Ahram.

Who cut Yemeni poet Waleed al-Rumaishi’s tongue in a brutal assault? And why?

Underscoring the chill in relations between Israel and Jordan since his ascension to the throne in 1999, King Abdullah II on Wednesday welcomed Cairo's Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.

Palestinian Media Watch found that Maan News Agency translated desire to die for “glory of Islam and flag of Allah” as “give our lives for peace.”