Syria on Sunday rejected an Arab League statement demanding an end to the bloodshed in the country as the organization’s chief waited for a green light to travel to Damascus.
In a diplomatic note to the organization’s secretariat seen by Agence France Presse, Syria said the statement amounted to "a clear violation ... of the principles of the Arab League charter and of the foundations of joint Arab action."
Full StoryLibyan rebels on Friday took control of the Ras Jdir post on the border with Tunisia, and raised the flag of the rebellion, a Tunisian government source told Agence France Presse.
"More than 100 Libyan rebels arrived Friday at Ras Jdir," the source said.
Full StoryA second suspected nuclear installation has been identified in Syria, according to commercial satellite photos, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The publishing Wednesday of the photos by Washington's Institute for Science and International Security could increase pressure on the United Nations to demand wide new inspections of suspect Syrian facilities during a March board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Full StoryCharred skeletons of some 50 people were found in a makeshift prison next to a military base abandoned by elite troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in southern Tripoli on Saturday, an Agence France Presse reporter saw.
Local residents discovered the remains after rebel forces took control of the base of the 32 Brigade commanded by Gadhafi's son Khamis in the district of Salaheddin.
Full StoryArab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday were to warn Syria they will no longer remain silent on its deadly crackdown on dissent, an Arab diplomat said.
The meeting, being held in the absence of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, was to move first to re-admit Libya in the presence of the rebel government's Prime Minister Mahmud Jibril, who was in Cairo.
Full StoryAt least 25 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed when a bus caught fire after being hit by a car in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, a police chief said.
The families were travelling on the bus from Baghdad to the northern Kurdish province of Dohuk when the vehicle got stuck in a pothole, according to Kirkuk province police chief Major General Jamal Taher Bakr.
Full StoryIran on Saturday inaugurated a plant for producing carbon fiber, which it is banned from importing by international sanctions targeting dual-use materials, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Today we are witnessing the fulfillment of a strategic project of the Ministry of Defense," Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said as he inaugurated the production facility, IRNA reported.
Full StorySyrian security forces killed two anti-regime demonstrators on Saturday morning and wounded another 15 in Damascus and in the northern province of Idlib, rights activists said.
In the capital's western quarter of Kafar Susseh, one demonstrator was killed and 10 hurt when club-wielding security forces attacked a group of people leaving prayers at the Rifai mosque, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Full StorySeven Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others wounded on Saturday in clashes with suspected al-Qaida forces in the southern province of Abyan, a military officer said.
The fighting took place near Dofes, a village south of the provincial capital of Zinjibar that has been occupied by extremist elements since the end of May, the source said.
Full StoryA convoy of six armored cars that could be carrying high Libyan officials, even fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi, crossed from Libya into Algeria on Friday, the official Egyptian news agency reported quoting a Libyan rebel source.
The report could not immediately be confirmed from Algerian or Libyan sources.
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