• Four prisoners with ties to al-Qaeda have escaped from the US-controlled section of Baghdad's Karkh prison, US officials say.
  • GAINESVILLE, Florida (AFP) - A Florida pastor Thursday abandoned plans to burn hundreds of Korans, saying Muslim leaders had vowed to relocate a mosque due to be opened close to the Ground Zero site in New York.
  • GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Two members of the Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip were wounded in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City, Palestinian witnesses said late Thursday.
  • Iran has confirmed that the jailed American hiker to be released on Saturday is Sarah Shourd.
  • TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran will free an American on Saturday, believed to be one of three hikers detained over a year ago, an official told AFP.
  • One of the three American hikers jailed in Iran will be released on Saturday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan
  • TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran will free an American on Saturday, believed to be one of three hikers detained over a year ago, an official told AFP.
  • Iran is set to release on Saturday one of three detained American hikers held since last July and accused of espionage, reports say.
  • UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Iran will release American hiker Sarah Shourd "very soon," an Iranian diplomat at the United Nations announced Thursday.
  • WASHINGTON (AFP) - Leading Iranian opposition members claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site buried in the mountains northwest of Tehran and run by Iran's defense ministry.
  • JERUSALEM (AFP) - A mortar shell fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Thursday evening causing no casualties, the second such attack of the day, the Israeli military said.
  • Iran has been secretly constructing a vast underground complex to hide a nuclear facility in the mountains east of Tehran in a development that would violate the UN sanctions regime, it has been claimed.
  • JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Muslim reaction in the Middle East to a US pastor's plan to stage a Koran-burning ceremony marking Saturday's anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States ranged from fury to warnings of a rise in extremist attacks.
  • The 300,000 settlers in the occupied West Bank – 'the most stereotyped and demonised population in the whole world' – are intent on ensuring that the latest diplomatic efforts are stillborn
  • BAGHDAD (AFP) - Ten years ago the military machinations of Saddam Hussein were a security obsession for the United States, but American forces in Iraq now aim to make the army of their former foe stronger than ever.
  • Two American soldiers were killed yesterday and nine injured in a major firefight in Iraq, the first casualties since the United States ended frontline operations.
  • Two US soldiers are killed in northern Iraq, the first US military deaths since Washington last month declared an end to combat operations in Iraq.
  • US troops have helped Iraqi forces after militants attacked an army base in Baghdad less than a week after the withdrawal of American front-line soldiers from Iraq.
  • Days after the US officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the centre of Baghdad.
  • WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iranian oppositional leaders claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site in the mountains northwest of Tehran run by the Iranian defense ministry.
  • The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed its section offering thousands of Islamic religious rulings.
  • Gunmen open fire on soldiers in southern Yemen, killing at least one and wounding others.
  • A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, is detained by the authorities on security charges.
  • Bahrain's human rights record came under fresh scrutiny on Tuesday after British peers linked the kingdom's arrest of two prominent opposition figures to their attendance of a seminar in the House of Lords.
  • Iran has suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
  • The Iranian woman who was sentenced to be stoned to death, causing an international outcry against the Islamic regime, may suffer her penalty at "any moment", her lawyer has warned
  • Foreign powers should stop interfering in the case of an Iranian woman whao was sentenced to death by stoning, Iran's foreign ministry says.
  • Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad.
  • The return to Iraq of the headless statue of a Sumerian king – looted in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003 – is an apposite footnote to the recent departure of US combat troops. Iraq remains lawless and headless. And combat has far from ceased
  • The brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a half-million pound profit in eight months on a luxury villa in Dubai bought with a loan from the bank at the centre of a financial and political crisis in Kabul.
  • The Israeli army sniper who shot Tom Hurndall, the British peace activist, in Gaza, has been released early from prison, despite protests from the dead man's parents.

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