The Syrian troops backed by a big firepower unleashed on Sunday a military operation to storm a key town in the northern outskirts of the capital Damascus after fully besieging it, as the rebels rained down Damascus with mortars as part of their reprisal.
A Yemeni court began Sunday a trial of nine suspected al-Qaida members accused of plotting to assassinate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi by a roadside bomb on his motorcade, the official Saba news agency reported.
A booby-trapped motorcycle ripped through a military vehicle in Syria's northern province of Qamishly, leaving unknown number of casualties, the pan-Arab Mayadeen TV reported.
Seven members of the al-Qaida- affiliated militia Ansar al-Sharia died in Libya's Sirte in an explosion on Monday, Libyan Deputy Defense Minister Khaled al- Sharif said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday afternoon that newly-captured al-Qaeda member Abu Anas al-Libi will be brought to justice.
Turkey will not help al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels launch attacks against the Syrian regime, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Tuesday.
Libya's militants on Tuesday called for kidnapping U.S. citizens in Tripoli and for staging attacks in retaliation for the capture of an alleged al-Qaida leader by U.S. authorities over embassy bombing charges.
The U.S. military conducted an operation in Somalia Friday night against Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, known as "Ikrima," a top commander in the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab, but failed to capture him, the Pentagon said Monday.
Pentagon has confirmed that U.S. military conducted a "successful" operation Saturday in Libya to capture longtime al-Qaida member Abu Anas al Libi, who was behind the bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Thirteen Syrian Islamist rebel factions, including al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, said in a statement Wednesday that they reject the leadership of exiled Syrian National Coalition (SNC), calling instead on all the opposition forces to unite under an Islamic umbrella.
Despite overrunning many areas of Syria, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) received a blow from its former main ally al-Qaeda, forcing the political opposition to reconsider its attitudes and agree to take part in negotiations with the Syrian government to reach a solution to the Syrian crisis.
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi stressed Sunday his country's commitment to a Russian-U.S. deal struck a day earlier to ensure stripping Syria's chemical arsenal.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday that his country is ready to reveal the sites of its chemical weapons storages to representatives of Russia and the United Nations, according to the pan-Arab al- Mayadeen TV.
Syrian Defense Minister Fahed al- Fraij said Thursday that the army will "decisively" respond to any form of foreign military action, the state-TV reported.
Syria's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it had reached an agreement with the UN, allowing the UN chemical investigation team to enter the eastern al-Ghouta countryside of the capital Damascus to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons there.
The trial of the top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), from which ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi hails, was adjourned to Oct. 29 over the absence of defendants for security reasons, state TV reported.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday his country is capable of rooting out terrorism, as government troops reportedly regained almost all of the contested countryside area of the coastal city of Latakia, the heartland of his rule.
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