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The Egyptian Sunni militant group al-Gama'a al-Islamiya intends to form militias to restore order to the streets, a member of the group says.
Mystery swirls around the assassination of a top Iranian general in Syria but details suggest he was a key figure in Tehran's campaign to save Bashar Assad.
The new Salafist al-Watan Party in Egypt will encourage women to be involved politically, the party's deputy leader, Yousry Hammad, said Friday.
The Saudi royal family denied reports King Abdallah was placed on life but the monarch's failing health has brought the succession issue into focus.
Yemen authorities have seized Iranian military equipment slated for rebels aboard a cargo ship at the port of Hodeidah, sources told Asharq al-Awsat.
U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday he hopes the U.N. Security Council will decide on a course of action to end the Syrian conflict.
Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in poor health and his morale has deteriorated despite his sons being moved to the same prison ward, officials said.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in poor health and is in the hospital ward at Tora Prison, the Interior Ministry's Prisons Department said.
Syrians say they're bracing for all-out civil war while diplomats at the United Nations again criticized the Assad regime for the bloodshed.
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