Five Yemeni soldiers were killed in in a suspected al-Qaeda ambush in the south, while in the north dozens of pro-government tribesmen were killed in clashes with Shi’ite Houthi rebels.
A Syrian military court sentenced lawyer and activist Haitham Maleh to three years in prison for campaigning against the emergency rule under which Syria has been governed since 1963.
Separatists launched a deadly attack on a military convoy in South Yemen one day after “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” killed 11 in an assault on the intelligence headquarters in Aden.
Amnesty International released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents.
Violence is rising in eastern Turkey since imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan decided to abandon peace efforts and leave local commanders in charge of the conflict.
Yemen now faces multiple converging crises—with al-Qaeda and allied tribal militants in the Hadramout, with Shi’ite Houthi rebels in the north, and with armed separatists in the south.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights called for the release of nine adherents of the Ahmadiyya sect detained under a controversial emergency law just extended by parliament.
An officer of the Saudi religious police, patrolling a park for unmarried couples illegally socializing, met physical resistance after he stopped a young couple walking together.
The Yemeni government and Huthi rebels should investigate alleged violations of the laws of war in the recent conflict and hold all those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said.
Turkish politician and Kurdish rights activist Leyla Zana was sentenced to three years in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda.
Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of more than 100 in a supposed al-Qaeda plot based in neighboring Yemen to target the kingdom’s oil infrastructure.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria’s Bashar Assad and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met in Damascus for an unprecedented three-way summit on unity against Israel.
