US forces called in airstrikes to end the clash, killing more than 30 insurgents in Zerok district of Paktika province, said Hamidullah Zawak, the provincial governor spokesman. Seven US and two Afghan troops were wounded, a US military spokesman said.
Wa’ad was arrested from the family home in the village of Surif, near Hebron in the West Bank, at 3:00am on 28 April 2008. He was asleep at the time and woke to the sound of Israeli soldiers banging on the front door.
Lahore: The Punjab provincial government on Friday moved the Pakistan Supreme Court against the Lahore High Court decision to release Jamaat ud Dawa chief and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, whom India has blamed for masterminding the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.
ALGIERS- The Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promoted a woman, Colonel Fatma-Zohra Aardjoun, to the rank of general, Saturday at the 47th anniversary of independence, announced the Algerian news agency APS.
On 1 July 2009, media relations between the Arab world and the United States took a fascinating turn. For the first time, the Doha-based TV station Al Jazeera brought its English-language news service to a large cable television audience in America, beginning in Washington, DC and then moving to other US cities.
The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by an ambitious government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda.
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a game show where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.
Saudi Arabia awarded French company Alstom a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of Haramain Express Railway, to link the holy cities of Makkah and Madina. Alstom is in violation of international law for its part in the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail, which will link illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (including East Jerusalem) with the city of Jerusalem. The construction of the light rail is part of a wider Israeli policy to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Jerusalem and turn permanent the illegal occupation of the city.
This news has been just posted this morning in All4Syria.info . Of course it is not a surprise to me or to anyone who is familiar with Syria and its politics whether in the past or the present. Last year there were reports published regionally and internationally that Al Assad had arrested his powerful brother in law who was once The inlaws thought to be the real ruler of Damascus.
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