Middle East
Egypt adjourns mass Brotherhood trial
An Egyptian court Tuesday adjourned the trial of Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and 682 alleged supporters to April 28, when it ...Arab summit kicks off with calls to arm Syria rebels
Syria\'s opposition chief urged Arab leaders Tuesday to pressure the international community to supply rebels with advanced weapons that would tip the ...Egypt sentences 529 Muslim Brotherhood members to death
An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder, a defence lawyer said, in ...Twenty Yemeni soldiers killed in attack on checkpoint
Twenty Yemeni soldiers were killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in the eastern province of Hadramout, state news agency Saba ...Turkey downs Syria warplane
Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday after it violated Turkish airspace, Turkey\'s prime minister said.Malaysia: Chinese satellite found object in ocean
China is investigating new satellite images of debris in the southern Indian Ocean, potentially from missing flight MH370, Malaysian officials say.Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank raid
Three Palestinians were killed in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank early on Saturday after Israeli soldiers launched an operation ...Israeli airstrikes escalate tensions with Syria
Israeli airstrikes against Syrian military positions in the Golan Heights killed one soldier and wounded seven in the most serious escalation between ...US halts Syrian embassy, consulate operations, orders diplomats out
U.S. officials have told the Syrian embassy in Washington to suspend operations. They say any Syrian diplomats who are not U.S. citizens ...Gunmen kill five army police officers in attack near Cairo: state media
Several army police officers have been killed in an attack on a checkpoint on the outskirts of Cairo, Egyptian state media report.




