A woman in Jordan’s anti-corruption panel was released Tuesday, a day after being detained for alleged graft over the purchase of trucks five years ago when she was on Amman’s municipality board. “Sanaa Mihyar was released today witho
Prominent leftist Palestinian writer Salameh Kaileh, freed recently after being arrested in Syria last month, was tortured during his detention, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The Britain-based watchdog distributed
أصيب أكثر من 30 فلسطينيا بجراح وحالات إغماء جراء استخدام قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي الأعيرة المطاطية وقنابل الغاز المدمع لقمع مسيرات قرب مدين
Abdelhakim Belhaj, a Libyan Islamist who has commanded the Tripoli military council since the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, has resigned from his post to enter politics. “Last night, I presented my resignation,” he told AFP.
شنت الطائرات الحربية اليمنية، مدعومة بالمدفعية الثقيلة، هجوما من أربعة محاور على مسلحي نظيم القاعدة جنوبي البلاد في محاولة لإنهاء سيطرتهم
About 50 Tunisian Salafist Muslims protested Tuesday at Tunis-Carthage airport against the expulsion of two Moroccan theologians banned from entering the country, an AFP reporter said. According to police, about 300 Salafists, who favor a s
Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes his place in next week’s presidential election. Long-suppressed Islamists already dominate parliament. Islamist contenders for t
برهان غليون ينتخب رئيسا للمجلس الوطني السوري، و "جبهة النصرة" تنفي مسؤوليتها عن تفجيري دمشق، والحكومة تقول ان نسبة التصويت بالانتخابات فاقت
أعاد المجلس الوطني السوري المعارض انتخاب برهان غليون رئيسا له بأكثرية 21 صوتا، في حين دعا رئيس البرلمان العربي علي سالم الدقباسي المعارضة ال
Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was empty. The New York-