ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - An air strike Wednesday in Yemen's southern restive province of Abyan killed six suspected Al-Qaeda fighters, a tribal source said, but failed to confirm whether it was a Yemeni or a US raid.
The raid was carried out in Al-Arkub, a stronghold of the extremist network, the source said.
"Six fighters of Al-Qaeda were killed in an air strike on Al-Arkub," a mountainous area n [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi on Sunday confirmed that Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison each for illegal entry and espionage, local media reported.
"Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been each sentenced to eight years in jail by the branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court," ISNA quoted him as telling a news conference. He said the ve [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - US President Barack Obama led a chorus of calls by world leaders for Syria's president to step down, as the United Nations warned his regime could be guilty of crimes against humanity.
Obama also slapped harsh new sanctions on Syria, freezing state assets and blacklisting the oil and gas sector, in an escalation of pressure aimed at halting a bloody protest crackdown [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has warned that a US veto of a Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to "terrorism" and would wreck ties with Washington.
In an interview conducted through several of his lawyers, Barghuti, an influential leader with widespread support among the Palestinian public, told AFP he was fully supp [...]
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - A radical anti-US Shiite cleric warned of "war" if US forces stayed in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal, in a brief statement viewed on Wednesday.
Moqtada al-Sadr did not give any further details in the written reply to a follower's question, released by his office in the holy Shiite city of Najaf.
Asked whether or not he would negotiate directly [...]
NINEVEH COMBINED COORDINATION CENTRE, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - New neutral arbitrators will be needed at centres set up to prevent disputes between Kurdish and Arab forces after the year-end departure of US troops from Iraq.
All US troops must leave by December 31 unless Baghdad and Washington reach an accord to allow a training mission to stay on.
Without an extension, the three centres which med [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - US forces carried out two air strikes in June against militants targeting American troops, including one against an Iranian-backed militia, a spokesman for the military mission said Tuesday.
The comments marked the first time the US military had acknowledged calling in air power recently against militants in Iraq, as American troops prepare to withdraw from the countr [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran's prosecutor general said on Monday that the verdict in the case of three Americans arrested two years ago on espionage charges would be issued "soon," Mehr news agency reported.
"The final verdict will be issued soon," Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said.
When asked whether there was a possibility of pardoning the three during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - The year-end pullout of US forces will improve security in Iraq, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi claimed Sunday, days after Iraqi leaders agreed to talk with Washington over a post-2011 training mission.
Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim and one of two vice presidents whose positions are largely ceremonial, said a continued American military presence in Iraq would be "a problem, n [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - The US embassy in Cairo issued a strongly-worded defence of its aid to Egypt as prosecutors probed foreign funding of civil society groups amid signs of tensions between Washington and Egypt's ruling generals.
The State Security prosecution, which used to coordinate with the State Security Investigations apparatus that was disbanded for rights abuses, is investigating comp [...]
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