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Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Egyptian security forces along the Gaza border Wednesday over the delay of an expected aid convoy, leaving dozens of Palestinians wounded and one Egyptian soldier dead, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said.
Iran once again has more journalists in jail than any other country, the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced Wednesday.
Yemeni security forces arrested three al Qaeda suspects northwest of the capital, Sanaa, early Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.
Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely, police said.
The man identified as the double agent who killed eight people at a U.S. base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian doctor recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a senior Jordanian official said Tuesday.
The U.S. Embassy in Yemen, which was closed over the weekend because of security concerns, reopened Tuesday, a day after Yemeni forces conducted successful security operations.
Yemen, a rugged, poor country on the southern Arabian Peninsula, is emerging as a key theater in the international fight against terrorism.
Nearly 90 professors at Iran’s oldest and largest university signed a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticizing the government’s violent handling of student protesters.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has compiled a list of 60 groups — several based in the United States — saying it considers them “soft war” agents against the country, Iranian media reported Monday.
Dubai on Monday officially inaugurated the centerpiece of its decade-long construction boom, with the surprise revelation that the world-beating 168-story skyscraper — seen by some as a symbol of the city’s economic excess — was even bigger than previously thought.