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Video footage shows two Syrian tanks join opposition forces. Civil war lurks as dozens of loyalist soldiers are killed.

The photos on social media shows a woman, clothed in just her denim pants, as army men hurl kicks only then to leave the lady unconscious lying on the street.

Likud's Moshe Feiglin tells Arab MK he represents murderers, Tibi denies Arabs torch Jewish synagogues.

The biggest winners so far appear to be the long-repressed Islamist parties, which didn’t always lead the revolts but in the subsequent elections in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco were the best organized and least tainted by the old regimes.

AFP  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that women were being sidelined in the hoped-for transition to democracy in Egypt, including during the current parliamentary elections. “In Egypt, women have been largely excluded from the transition process and even harassed in the street,” Clinton said in prepared remarks for a speech on women,

Passengers are often stranded for hours or days when airplanes are grounded for technical failures or break down on the way to the runway. Some of those who actually take off pray for a safe landing after several crashes in past years.

Egypt is concerned about a book Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders plans to publish in the spring. Earlier today, the German Press Agency DPA reported that Dutch ambassador Susan Blankhart was summoned by the Egyptian foreign minister in November to explain anti-Islamic comments by the controversial MP.

Western diplomats from NATO members say the alliance never targeted civilians, which would constitute a war crime, though they fear critics of the NATO’s handling of the war will seize on estimates of civilian deaths to accuse NATO of war crimes.

Hundreds of voters in a Salafi stronghold rushed to a polling station in Al-Haram district, near the Giza Pyramids, demanding their right to vote even after the polls closed.

The legislation notably requires that al-Qaeda fighters who plot or carry out attacks on U.S. targets be held in military, not civilian, custody, subject to a presidential waiver.