Tunisia ups security as Salafists vow to defy ban
Ansar al-Sharia had urged its supporters to travel to the venue in groups in a bid to get past police.
Read More →Turkey arrests prime suspect in Hatay blasts
With the latest arrest, Turkey now holds four people in jail while four others have been freed pending trial.
Read More →Abbas: Reconciliation with Hamas and elections are on the agenda
The head of the PLO stresses peaceful methods as the only way for Palestinians to get their state
Read More →CIA chief ‘in surprise Israel trip over Syria’
The CIA chief went straight into a meeting in Tel Aviv with Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon
Read More →Security forces detain Syrian actress: lawyer
“Skaf made a mobile phone call to her son, to tell him her identity card had been taken from her by members of the security forces at a checkpoint,”
Read More →UN assembly slams Assad ‘escalation’ in Syria war
After three years of civil war — and with the death toll topping 90,000 — leaders and envoys from world and regional powers are shuttling between capitals trying to drum up support for a negotiated end to the bloodshed.
Read More →Iran in parallel nuclear talks in Vienna, Istanbul
The International Atomic Energy Agency says that there is “overall, credible” evidence that until 2003, and possibly since, Iranian scientists conducted research into developing the nuclear bomb.
Read More →Internet, telecoms cut across Syria: SANA
Internet in Syria has regularly been cut, most recently on May 7, with it being restored some 24 hours later.
Read More →Turkish fighter jet crashes near Syrian border
The governor of Osminaye province, Celalettin Cerrah, specified that the plane had gone down in the town of Yarpuz
Read More →Jihadist leader threatens war against Tunisia govt
Abu Iyadh, whose real name is Seif Allah Ibn Hussein, is accused of organising numerous acts of violence and has been on the run since September, after an attack by Islamist protesters on the US embassy in September in which four of them died.
Read More →40 dead in Turkey car bombings near Syria border
Interior Minister Muammer Guler told NTV news channel that the death toll has risen to 40 and that 100 people were wounded, of whom 29 are in serious condition.
Read More →Hundreds protest against terrorism in Tunis
Tunisians protested on Friday against “terrorism” after the government said two wanted jihadist groups had ties with Al-Qaeda.
Read More →Britain withdraws some embassy staff from Libya
Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns
Read More →Muqdad: Our retaliation will be strong and painful against Israel
Syria will ‘respond immediately’ to any Israeli strike
Read More →Palestinian anger as Israel okays 300 new settler homes
Erakat said the move sent a clear message to Washington that Israel was not interested in resuming the direct talks, frozen in 2010
Read More →Assad says Hezbollah ‘a model for Syria’
The organisation is a long-time ally of the Syrian regime and has sent fighters to battle alongside Assad’s troops
Read More →Al-Qaradawi visits Gaza, greeted by Haniya
Hamas prime minister Haniya: It is an honour for us to receive the sheikh of the Arab Spring on the soil of Palestine.
Read More →Israel raids home of Mufti
Mufti’s arrest sparks international condemnation from much of the Arab world
Read More →Syria Internet blackout enters second day
The state news agency blames it on a fault in optical fibre cables
Read More →Iranian FM meets Assad: diplomatic source
“Salehi arrived in Damascus from Amman and was received by President Bashar al-Assad,” the source said.
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