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Police crack down on Muslim Brotherhood

Police cracked down on demonstrators in central Cairo, arresting 100 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including one of its leaders, as they were protesting on Thursday near a…

Violence flares in Iraq

Violence increased across Iraq after a lull following the December 15 parliamentary elections, with at least two dozen people killed in shootings and bombings mostly targeting…

Saddam quiet as trial resumes

A quieter Saddam Hussein sat in his defendant’s chair at the resumption of his trial on Wednesday, two weeks after he refused to attend the last session in a court he called…

Kidnappers threaten to kill top Egyptian in Iraq

Kidnappers of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq have threatened to kill him because Egypt has allied with ”Jews and Christians,” according to a statement posted on Wednesday on an…

Insurgents strike again in volatile Iraq

Insurgents struck at Iraqi police forces with a suicide bomb, a car bomb and mortars in the cities of Mosul and Baqouba on Monday, killing at least 30 people as they pressed…

‘Iraqis determine their destiny’

Iraqis defied violence and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq’s first free election in half a century on Sunday. Insurgents seeking to wreck the vote struck polling…

‘Not one body in one piece’

A car bomb exploded on Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital official said at least 50…