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/ 17 September 2008
General David Petraeus is to oversee all US forces in the Middle East as his deputy steps up to lead Iraq troops.
Soft approach to jihadists starts to backfire as poverty fuels extremism.Ian Black reports.
The mysterious assassination of a top Syrian army officer and right-hand man to President Bashar al-Assad has triggered intense speculation.
Ehud Olmert’s announcement that he will step down from his party’s leadership may be hardly surprising given his corruption and poll ratings problems.
Whatever happens next, Binyamin Netanyahu — once the enfant terrible of Israeli politics — stands to gain.
Egyptian expert on radical Islamists, Dia Rashwan, says recent al-Qaeda propaganda footage from Iraq is old and cannot mask the crisis it is facing.
The United States agreed on Friday to help Saudi Arabia protect its oil industry from terrorist attack, while offering to back conservative Arab countries resisting Iranian influence spreading across the Middle East — but King Abdullah was not persuaded to boost Saudi oil production to ease the effect of the -a-barrel price on the US.
Over lavish buffets in giant, air-conditioned tents whose generators battle with the searing summer heat, Kuwaitis have been arguing over an election that is being watched for signs that one of the freest countries in the Arab world is disillusioned with its political system.
Soldiers, insurgents and bandits are routinely attacking Somalian civilians, murdering, raping and robbing villagers, and destroying entire districts, Amnesty International said this week. Gang rape and throat cutting — referred to locally as ”killing like goats” — is prevalent.
It is an overcast morning in the Bulaq neighbourhood of Cairo, three hours after the muezzin’s call to prayers. The streets are choked with honking cars, while goats — and a few ragged-looking people — pick at piles of stinking rubbish overflowing from metal wheelie bins.