WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has closed the US Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria.
WASHINGTON/CAIRO: The US ambassador to the United Nations is keeping up the Obama administration’s pressure on Egypt to release 19 Americans facing trial on allegations of encouraging unrest in the country.
CAIRO: Volleys of tear gas left a white cloud over Cairo's Tahrir Square and surrounding streets in the vicinity of the Interior Ministry, on the fourth day of clashes between security forces and rock-throwing youth protesting a deadly soccer riot.
TEHRAN: Iran will attack any country whose territory is used by “enemies” of the Islamic state to launch a military strike against its soil, the deputy head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards told the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday.
MUNICH: Turkey and Qatar urged the West on Sunday not to attack Iran to solve a nuclear row, but to make greater efforts to negotiate an end to the dispute.
RABAT: Morocco’s King Mohammed issued pardons to several leading Islamists who rights groups say were unfairly jailed, signalling a less hard-line approach after moderate Islamists came to power in an election last year.
RABAT, Morocco: Moroccan police have arrested three suspects accused of planning to carry out attacks on the security of the state.
JERUSALEM: Hamas officials say a senior member of the Palestinian militant group has left Syria because of the government’s crackdown on an uprising there.
CAIRO: An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on the installation that crosses the increasingly volatile Sinai region, witnesses and state media reported.
BEIJING: Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan’s government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
ADEN: Armed clashes between supporters and opponents of a presidential election in Yemen left dozens of people wounded in the main southern city of Aden, activists from both sides said on Saturday.
KUWAIT CITY: Witnesses say demonstrators have stormed into the Syrian Embassy compound in Kuwait, breaking windows and hoisting the flag of the opposition to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest in the country’s ambitious space program that has raised concerns because if its possible military applications.
CAIRO: A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in the Egyptian capital, and that one man died in the latest violence.
WASHINGTON: Israel’s major allies in the West are working hard to talk it out of a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would strengthen, not weaken, the rulers in Tehran.
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Islamist-led opposition made significant gains in a snap election, while women candidates did not win a single seat in the Gulf state’s fourth Parliament in six years, official results of the ballot showed on Friday.
BEIRUT: Government forces shelled the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, striking a makeshift medical clinic and residential areas and killing at least 17 people in the third day of a new assault on the epicenter of the country’s uprising, activists said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed at a meeting in Qatar on Monday to form a unified Palestinian government for the West Bank and Gaza headed by Palestinian President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas, a senior Palestinian official said.
AMMAN/MUNICH/WASHINGTON: Jordanian Islamists on Sunday called on Muslims and Arabs to boycott Russian and Chinese products after the two countries vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria's regime over bloodshed.
DUBAI: Kuwait’s interim government tendered its resignation on Sunday, state television said, making way for the formation of a new cabinet following a snap parliamentary election on Thursday. Under the constitution, a new cabinet must be formed before the new parliament’s first session, which is held two weeks after the vote.
