At least eight top leaders of Egypt' s Muslim Brotherhood were allegedly arrested at Rabaa Al Adawiya square in Cairo's Nasr City during an operation by the police to disperse supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, state TV reported on Wednesday.
At two major squares in Egypt's capital of Cairo, pro-Morsi sit-inners increased "guards" at the entrances in the early hours of Monday, amid circulated news about possible police crackdown.
Egypt's government on Wednesday demanded an end to sit-ins staged by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi after foreign mediation failed.
The US says its embassies in north Africa and the Middle East will remain closed until Saturday, due to a possible militant threat.
The Obama administration on Wednesday declassified three documents to give some broad details to the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program, before Senators grilled intelligence officials about the program in a hearing.
Al-Qaida militant group in Iraq on Tuesday claimed responsibility for recent coordinated attacks on two prisons near the capital Baghdad, the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
Egypt's prosecution decided Wednesday to extend the detention of eight Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leading figures for 15 days pending investigations over charges of inciting violence and killings, official news agency MENA reported.
The White House on Tuesday rejected a Russian claim that the Syrian rebels had used chemical weapons in their fighting against the government troops.
The Department of Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on Abd al-Hamid al-Masli, an alleged key bomb maker for al-Qaeda.
Syrian troops have regained full control of the strategic central city of al-Qussair in the Homs province after two-week-long offensive.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al- Moallem said Wednesday that his government has no pre-conditions for holding peace talks, adding that President Bashar al-Assad will attend the 2014 presidential elections "if people want."
The United States on Monday denounced Hezbollah for siding with the Syrian government forces in their battle against the rebels in Syria's central city of al-Qussair.
The Syrian army on Sunday launched a wide-scale operation to recapture the border city of al-Qussair near Lebanon, and has regained large swathes of the strategic city, local media reported.
An al-Qaida-linked cell, recently busted in Egypt, had planned to launch suicide car bombings at the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, Egyptian official MENA news agency quoted prosecution sources as saying on Wednesday.
An al-Qaida-linked cell, recently busted in Egypt, had planned to launch suicide car bombings at the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, Egyptian official MENA news agency quoted prosecution sources as saying on Wednesday.
Washington is facing a difficult situation after the Iraqi wing of al-Qaida network docked with the Nusra Front radical group in Syria, a Syrian state-run paper said Thursday.
Syria's Foreign Ministry accused armed groups affiliated with al-Qaida network of being behind the massive explosion that killed more than 53 people earlier on Thursday, the state-media said.
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