Bahraini forces backed by helicopters launched a crackdown on protesters on Wednesday, imposing a curfew and clearing hundreds from a camp.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Tunis on Monday as pressure grew for the removal of ministers linked to the ousted president.
Protesters demonstrated on Sunday to demand that the revolution should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president’s guard from power.
The toppling of an authoritarian ruler by waves of street protests has transfixed Arabs across North Africa and the Middle East.
Tunisia’s interim prime minister promised to quit politics after elections, a pledge intended to appease protesters.
Tunisian police fired shots into the air on Thursday to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers leave the new government.
Tunisia’s caretaker prime minister aims to gather his national unity Cabinet for a first meeting on Wednesday, but he already faces revolt.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama told Arab television he would not wait until the end of his administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace.
Osama bin Laden urged Palestinians on Thursday to use ”iron and fire” to end an Israeli blockade of Gaza, in a recording after the Vatican rejected accusations by the al-Qaeda chief of a ”new crusade”. In an audiotape broadcast by the Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel on Thursday, bin Laden urged Muslims to keep up the struggle against US forces in Iraq
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/ 8 September 2007
Osama bin Laden said in a new video marking the sixth anniversary of al-Qaeda’s September 11 attacks that the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power, but he made no specific threats. The al-Qaeda leader said US President George Bush was repeating the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq.