Regional News

22 مايو 2013

Egyptian police and soldiers who were seized in Sinai by kidnappers are seen upon their arrival at Almaza military Airbase in Cairo on May 22 (Khaled Desouki / AFP)
12:45 بتوقيت جرينتش

The seven members of the Egyptian security forces were released after negotiations with local tribesmen

Egyptian soldiers are deployed in the area of the Rafah Crossing border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on May 21 (STR / AFP)
08:21 بتوقيت جرينتش

The seven Egyptian security force members kidnapped last Thursday were released early on Wednesday morning

Saudi security forces (AFP)
03:00 بتوقيت جرينتش

Saudi officials announced on Tuesday that it had arrested 10 members of an alleged Iranian spy ring, including Saudi, Lebanese and Turkish citizens.

21 مايو 2013

The five beheaded men were put on public display (Twitter / @Kamal070)
14:02 بتوقيت جرينتش

The five men were convicted of murder and committing a string of robberies across a number of towns in the the desert Kingdom

Coronavirus seen under an electron miscroscope (British Health Protection Agency/ AFP)
12:02 بتوقيت جرينتش

The Tunisian Health Ministry statement confirmed that a 66 year-old man has died from the coronavirus

20 مايو 2013

Egyptian police hold signs denoting that the gates are closed and demanding the return of their colleagues, as they gather at the Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip (Mohamed el-Shahed/ AFP)
10:40 بتوقيت جرينتش

The move could be a signal that the Morsi government is prepared to use force in a bid to return the captive soldiers

An unmanned drone carries out a touch go landing in the Atlantic (US Navy/AFP)
10:11 بتوقيت جرينتش

Two al-Qaeda suspects were killed in the bombing in central Yemen, which comes days after a similar strike was carried out in the south of the country, killing four

Israeli soldiers take part in exercises in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, earlier in May. AFP Photo
09:17 بتوقيت جرينتش

Just one day after Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would "take all necessary measures to protect Israel's security from the Syrian conflict", Syrian gunfire hit the Israeli occupied Golan Heights over night.

Security forces gesture towards Ansar Al Sharia protestors in the Ettadhamen, Tunisia on Sunday. AFP
08:44 بتوقيت جرينتش

After clashes between Salafist hardline Islamist group Ansar Al Sharia and Tunisian security forces across the country on Sunday, there has been one reported fatality, three injured protestors and 11 policemen wounded.

Palestinian travellers gather at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after Egypt closed its borders. AFP Photo
03:00 بتوقيت جرينتش

On Sunday, Egyptian police closed down their Awja border with Israel in protest of the abduction of policemen by suspected Israeli militants on Thursday.

19 مايو 2013

Egyptian police hold signs denoting that the gates are closed and demanding the return of their colleagues, as they gather at the Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip (Mohamed el-Shahed/ AFP)
21:26 بتوقيت جرينتش

A video appeared online on Sunday which apparently shows the seven members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped last Thursday in the Sinai peninsula

Tunisian Police Special Unit agents fix a national flag on their vehicle in front of the Okba Ibn Nafaa mosque in the central Tunisian city of Kairouan. (Fethi Belaid/ AFP)
12:56 بتوقيت جرينتش

Clashes between police and protestors erupted in Tunis on Sunday, after the government banned a planned rally

The Egyptian army is seeking to launch a military attack on the kidnappers in Sinai who seized policemen in Sinai on Thursday
07:43 بتوقيت جرينتش

Egyptian President has been urged by the Egyptian army to give them the green light that will allow them to launch an attack on the kidnappers that seized policemen in Sinai on Thursday. AFP Photo

18 مايو 2013

An Egyptian protester carries a picture of late president Anwar al-Sadat during a demonstration against President Mohammed Morsi on Friday in Tahrir Square, Cairo. AFP photo
08:25 بتوقيت جرينتش

Supporters of a new petition that seeks to out Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi clashed in Cairo on Friday, with teenagers and security forces in Tahrir Square.

16 مايو 2013

The Afghan version of the Arab Spring: suicide bombings and violence. Photo for illustrative purposes only.
21:41 بتوقيت جرينتش

Surge in violence in Afghanistan: at least 15 victims in a car bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday.