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  • 2 killed, 1 injured in 2 separate incidents in Iraq

    2 killed, 1 injured in 2 separate incidents in Iraq

    Date: 2013-11-23 09:55:34 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:402171

    Two people were killed and another was injured in two separate incidents in north and east of Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi security source said. Unidentified armed men opened fire toward a civilian while he was walking in Baghdad and he died on ....

  • Jordan concerned about report on terrorism in Daraa

    Jordan concerned about report on terrorism in Daraa

    Date: 2013-11-23 09:52:58 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:402168

    The Jordanian government is concerned about reports speaking of terrorist organizations in Daraa in the north of the country, spokesman Mohamed al-Momni said Saturday. He told Jordan's "Al-Ghad" newspaper Amman has taken security precautions to ....

  • 8 arrested in connection with attack on police station

    8 arrested in connection with attack on police station

    Date: 2013-11-23 09:48:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:402160

    Security bodies are working to capture elements wanted in connection with attacks on police stations and inciting violence. Police were able to arrest eight of them on charges of storming Snoras police station in Fayyoum and stealing its content. ....

  • Zarif flatly denies secret Iran-US talks

    Zarif flatly denies secret Iran-US talks

    Date: 2013-11-23 09:01:58 GMT - Iran - International - SN:18 - ID:402080

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has categorically dismissed reports about secret negotiations between Tehran and Washington, stressing that talks have focused only on the standoff over Iran's nuclear energy program, Iran's Press TV ....

  • Lavrov, Ashton discuss reaching mutually acceptable P5+1 agreement on Iran

    Lavrov, Ashton discuss reaching mutually acceptable P5+1 agreement on Iran

    Date: 2013-11-23 09:01:06 GMT - Russia - International - SN:19 - ID:402088

    Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, on Friday evening in Geneva discussed ways to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement between the Sextet and Iran, The ....

  • Kerry arrives in Geneva to join Iran nuclear talks

    Kerry arrives in Geneva to join Iran nuclear talks

    Date: 2013-11-23 08:57:14 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:17 - ID:402075

    US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived here Saturday morning to attend negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file. Kerry said before leaving Washington that he had no particular expectation that an agreement could be reached this week. But after ....

  • Deadly blasts hit Pakistani city of Karachi

    Deadly blasts hit Pakistani city of Karachi

    Date: 2013-11-23 08:18:40 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:16 - ID:402018

    At least seven people are reported to have been killed in two bomb explosions in a busy area of Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, the BBC said. At least 18 people were injured in the predominantly Shia area of Ancholi, local media ....

  • Office of UN envoy to Yemen denies attack on convoy

    Office of UN envoy to Yemen denies attack on convoy

    Date: 2013-11-23 08:16:55 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:402014

    The office of the UN envoy to Yemen has denied news that gunmen fired shots at a convoy carrying Jamal Benomar in Sanaa Friday night. The news about the firing at the UN envoy is baseless, a well-placed source stressed Saturday. Benomar is ....

  • Lebanese Forces MP: Iran occupies Lebanon

    Lebanese Forces MP: Iran occupies Lebanon

    Date: 2013-11-23 08:13:50 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:401980

    Lebanese Forces Parliamentary Bloc Member, MP Antoine Zahra, accused Iran Friday of occupying his country indirectly and Hezbollah, which has close links with Iranian Revolutionary Guards, practices such occupation on large parts of ....

  • Syria mediator Brahimi holding talks with Iran, Russia

    Syria mediator Brahimi holding talks with Iran, Russia

    Date: 2013-11-23 07:55:24 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:401984

    Syrian mediator Lakhdar Brahimi held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday on a planned international conference aimed at ending Syria's civil war, according to Russia Today TV channel. "They discussed preparations ....

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