A rebel spokesman has said that Misrata came under heavy bombardment on Sunday by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Government forces had retreated in the coastal city of Misrata after a siege of nearly two months and rebels fighting to overthrow Gaddafi had claimed victory there on Saturday. ”The situation is very dangerous,” rebel spokesman Abdelsalam said by [...]
Snipers, cluster bombs and intense shelling are spreading panic in Misrata, an AFP reporter said on Monday, as a doctor reported 1,000 people killed in six weeks of fighting in the besieged city. With fears growing that refugees will attempt a chaotic mass escape by sea from the city of 400,000, UN chief Ban Ki-moon called [...]
TRIPOLI, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Fighting raged in the long-besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Friday and Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown was reportedly hit by NATO, as world leaders said the Libyan leader had to go. Heavy gunfire and shelling could be heard in Misrata, with sustained exchanges near the centre before nightfall, an AFP [...]
DAMASCUS, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Thousands of protesters massed across Syria after weekly Muslim prayers on Friday as a global outcry widened over a deadly crackdown on month-old, anti-regime demonstrations. The protesters took to the streets of the restive city of Daraa as well as other centres in the Kurdish-populated north, a day after embattled [...]
CAIRO, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Egypt’s state prosecutor decided Friday to move ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital, then to prison when his health improves, in a probe over a deadly crackdown on protesters that could send him to the gallows, state media reported. Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa were remanded [...]
BAGHDAD, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Iraqi leaders should not expect US forces to return to help in a crisis once they leave at the end of the year, a senior American military official said on Wednesday. The remarks came just days after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ended a two-day visit to Iraq during which [...]
PARIS, April 11, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam admitted Monday that it was time for “new blood” in his country’s leadership but said talk of his father stepping down was “ridiculous”. ”The Libyan Guide does not want to control everything. He is at an advanced age. We would like to bring [...]
DAMASCUS, April 11, 2011 (AFP) – Syrian students rallied in Damascus on Monday to express solidarity with protesters killed over the weekend, as the army moved in on the flashpoint town of Banias. France and Germany, meanwhile, slammed the deadly assaults by security forces on anti-regime protesters and called on President Bashar al-Assad to make good [...]
TEHRAN, April 10, 2011 (AFP) – Iran has expelled “several” Kuwaiti diplomats in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the expulsion of its diplomats accused of spying in the emirate, in a fresh blow to already tense relations across the Gulf. ”Iran has expelled in retaliation several Kuwaiti diplomats,” the Islamic republic’s Arabic-language Al-Alam television reported Sunday, quoting [...]
TEHRAN, April 9, 2011 (AFP) – Iran is prepared to diplomatically “resolve” differences with its Arab neighbours, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday, as tensions simmer between Tehran and the Gulf monarchies. ”If there are some mistrusts (between Iran and the Arab countries), we can sit down and resolve them through diplomatic channels,” Salehi [...]
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