SARA GHASEMILEE - EMAN EL-SHENAWI - Al Arabiya - Agencies Syrian security forces have killed at least 27 people on Sunday and have carried out sweeping arrests in Deir Ezzor, according to rights activists, as the army continues its insistent crackdown down on anti-government protests in the city. At least 20 civilians have
Chana Ya'ar - Israel National News Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warns the PA is preparing to attack Israel with 'bloodshed on a scale we haven't seen" in September. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced he is advocating that Israel sever all ties with the Palestinian Authority. Lieberman told reporters Sunday that he would
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syria’s government has shown off TV and still images of burned buildings and rubble-strewn streets empty of people in Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, claiming it was putting an end to the rebellion in the besieged city. Under the suffocating clampdown, residents of the city on Friday warned that
SARA GHASEMILEE - Al Arabiya - Agencies Somalia’s capital has been "fully liberated" from Islamist Al Shabaab rebels, the country’s president said on Saturday. "Mogadishu has been fully liberated from the enemy, and the rest of the country will soon be liberated too," Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told reporters. The Al Qaeda affiliated Al
Elad Benari - Israel National News New terror method? Arabs caught while trying to set fire to a cemetery. A Jewish worshipper who came on Thursday to pray on the tombs of righteous people in the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem, came across several Arabs who were attempting to set some shrubs in
AFP Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt’s military ruler, will most likely testify in the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak if summoned after a request by the defense, a security official said Thursday. Fareed Al Deeb, who represented the fallen dictator at his murder trial, asked the judge in its first session on
Gavriel Queenann - Israel National News Lawmakers have proposed a bill defining Hebrew the sole official language and define Israel as "the national home of the Jewish people." Lawmakers submitted a draft law that would establish Hebrew as Israel's only official language on Wednesday. Arabic and English are currently considered official languages in
ABEER TAYEL - AL ARABIYA - AGENCIES Libya’s rebel forces on Friday said an overnight night NATO strike on an operations center in the western town of Zliten has killed Muammar Qaddafi’s son Khamis and 32 others. Citing spies operating among Mr. Qaddafi’s ranks, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for revolutionary militia groups, told
AFP Armed Yemenis loyal to tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq Al Ahmar, who heads a coalition backing anti-regime protests, were deployed in Sana’a on Friday as army troops bore down on their stronghold in the capital. Armored vehicles from the elite Republican Guard, led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s son Ahmed, advanced overnight towards
AFP Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the United States urged Al Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants late Thursday to stop blocking aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia and allow it to reach masses of starving people. Flanked by Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, Mrs. Clinton told reporters it was especially "tragic" that the militants
