BEIRUT: At least two people were killed in heavy fighting between rival Sunni Muslim gunmen in Beirut on Monday, medical and security sources said, in the latest violence fueled by tensions over the u
TRIPOLI: The Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie will be buried on Monday in a quiet ceremony that Libyans hope will allow them to leave behind the controversy that s
SANAA: At least 20 people were killed and more than 60 wounded when a man in soldier’s uniform blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, a police source s
Bashar Assad’s forces are driving away Sunnis from residential districts in Homs to replace them with ethnic Allawites, according to a prominent member of the Syrian National Council (SNC).
DAMASCUS: Fierce fighting between regime troops and armed rebels rocked parts of Damascus overnight while a Baath party official became the latest victim of a spate of political killings, a watchdog s
TEHRAN/VIENNA: A majority of Iranian lawmakers yesterday urged world powers to respect Iran’s “rights” in crucial talks next week in Baghdad over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of a Lebanese political alliance against Syrian President Bashar Assad in northern Lebanon yesterday, security sources
MADRID/ADEN: A Spanish policeman who was deployed at Madrid’s embassy in Yemen has gone missing, his family and Spain’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday, with a newspaper reporting he has been kidn
TRIPOLI: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet Al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland in which 270 people were killed, died yesterday, his brother told AFP.
BAGHDAD: Lawyers for Iraq’s fugitive vice president charged with running death squads that targeted Shiite officials and civilians quit the case yesterday in protest after judges would not let them
