Monthly Archives: July 2011

Forces loyal the Syrian President Bashar Assad stormed the northern Damascus suburb of Harasta ahead of further opposition protests, Gulf News reports.

U.S. officials warn that Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen are eyeing surgically implanted explosive devices as the latest in suicide-bomber chic in order to blow up airliners, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) square on Friday to “correct” the course of the revolution that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak and press the ruling military council to speed up the trial of members of the former regime.

Suspected Al Qaeda militants killed 10 soldiers when they ambushed them on a road in southern Yemen, a region in which the jihadist network has a stronghold, a military official said on Thursday.

The “fly-in flotilla” planned for Friday has fizzled as foreign authorities ban most anti-Israel activists from boarding flights. Police are still on alert at Ben Gurion International Airport, but so far have encountered only six protesters.

Investigators and detectives from the Central Unit of the Jerusalem Police have arrested four Arab youths aged 15-16 on suspicion of vandalizing tombstones in the American Section of the ancient Jewish cemetery at the Mount of Olives.

The UN Security Council plans to discuss this month the possibility of Palestine becoming a United Nations member state, Reuters reported.

As the planned Freedom Flotilla 2 continues to fizzle, Israel is preparing for another provocation, this time in the form of a planned ‘fly in’ to Ben Gurion Airport by pro-Arab activists.

Iran said Tuesday it plans to try 26 US officials in abstentia for 'violating human rights,' Farsi-news outlet Qods reports. Most nations regard trials in abstentia a violation of a defendent's right to due process.

The death toll in two-days of ongoing violence in Hama has risen to 11 as troops and gunmen loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad open fire on protesters who, earlier in the day, said they were preparing to deny government forces access to the city.