UN Security Council passed a resolution Thursday night, March 17, 2011 that approved not only a no-fly zone for Libya but also “all necessary measures to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat of attack”. […]
According to witness and medical personnel, Yemeni security forces and plainclothes snipers rooftops shot and killed up to 42 protesters at an anti-government rally in Sanaa after Muslim prayers on Friday President Ali Abdullah Saleh […]
Muammar Gaddafi forces bombarded the rebel-held city of Misurata on Friday after they claimed a cease fire in response to threats of a United Nations resolution to use military force to suppress Gaddafi forces. Foreign […]
Gaddafi had vowed to show “no mercy, no pity” on Thursday, but the city of Misrata was being pounded by Libyan government forces Friday morning. France, a leading advocate of military action, said it was […]
Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is asking Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009 on spy charges. Ali released to The Associated Press a letter he wrote to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ali’s […]
The American Embassy says the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the killings of two Pakistani men by a CIA contractor in Pakistan. The United States say Davis was released by diplomatic immunity. Pakistan […]
With the top U.S. commander, General David Petraeus in Afghanistan offering Congress his first formal assessment of the war in Afghanistan, a leading Republican is asserting that the U.S. and its NATO allies are turning […]
Demonstrators who have seized control of key points in Manama the capital of Bahrain. The response of a National Guard brigade, a mechanized brigade of the Saudi army and a tank battalion with 3,500 troops. […]
Police in Yemen used tear gas, water cannons and live bullets at anti-government protesters at a protest camp in Tahrir Square in the center of the capital, Sanaa. At least six people died and about […]
Saudi police opened fire Thursday in the eastern city of Qatif to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east. At least one man was injured in the struggle. Also, in Riyadh the government is […]
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