Yemeni forces clashed with Shia rebels, killing 11 in a country where Washington and Riyadh fear al Qaeda may be gaining a stronger foothold.
Yemeni forces clashed with Shia rebels, killing 11 in a country where Washington and Riyadh fear al Qaeda may be gaining a stronger foothold.
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s human rights minister told AFP on Friday she was “astonished” by a US judge’s decision to dismiss criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews is spending the Sabbath in Gaza in an unlikely show of support for Palestinians in the Hamas-run coastal strip.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed for reason from Shiite rebels in the north, separatists in the south and Al-Qaeda militants in an article published on Friday to mark the new year.
BAGHDAD - The leading American general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says the upcoming Iraq election in March is of "enormous importance" to the country's future, but warned of violence leading up to it.
CAIRO - A council of leading Muslim clerics has supported the Egyptian government's construction of an underground barrier along the border with Gaza to impede tunnelling by smugglers, a report said on Friday.
The number of people killed across Iraq in December was 367 and the civilian death toll in 2009 was 2,800, making the year the least violent since the US-led invasion of 2003, officials said on Friday.
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign to have the disputed June re-election of President Ahmadinejad overturned.
A U.S. judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied on opposite sides of an Israeli-Gaza border crossing on Thursday to protest the blockade of the seaside territory imposed by Egypt and Israel.