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  • More fighting reported in Misrata

    There are reports of explosions and gunfire in the Libyan city of Misrata, despite an announcement that the Libyan army had "halted operations" there. The army said had stopped fighting to "give local tribal leaders an opportunity to negotiate" with the opposition. Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said government troops had.. More

  • The impunity of the armed forces in Kashmir

    The reported 8,000 to 10,000 enforced disappearances in Indian-administered Kashmir are just one part of a series of human rights violations attributed to the Indian government, including extra-judicial killings, torture and illegal detentions. But the Indian state has been able to side-step international human rights conventions through a series of.. More

  • Syrian forces raid homes to quell protests

    Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said, as popular opposition to President Bashar al Assad mounted following the bloodiest attacks on pro-democracy protesters. Security operatives in plain clothes wielding assault rifles broke into homes in the suburb of Harasta just after midnight on Sunday, arresting activists.. More

  • Yemen president 'agrees' to Gulf proposal

    Tariq Shami, a presidential aide, told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the president had agreed in full to a proposal from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for him to step down. But he said the opposition must first agree to the deal in order for Saleh to accept the plan for a three-month transition of power. Saleh, who has ruled the country for more.. More

  • At least 88 protesters killed in Syria crackdown

    The protest movement in Syria delivered on a promised record turnout on Friday, with massive rallies reported in virtually every city nationwide. The regime’s security forces were also out in force, however, shooting massive numbers of demonstrators. A very preliminary count has at least 88 protesters killed and several hundred others wounded... More

  • Libyan army 'to pull out' from Misurata

    Khaled Kaim, Libya's deputy foreign minister, says "pro-government forces will withdraw from the besieged city of Misurata, leaving the tribes to deal with the opposition fighters". Kaim said the Libyan army, loyal toGaddafi, had been given an "ultimatum" to stop the "rebellion" in the western city, 200km east of the capital,.. More

  • Protests continue in Yemen

    Massive crowds have taken to the streets of Yemen's capital Sanaa to demand the immediate resignation of president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a day after Arab leaders urged him to quit under a Gulf Cooperation Council plan. Anti-government protesters held a demonstration in the centre of the capital on the weekly day of communal prayers for Muslims. Loyalists.. More

  • Deaths in US drone attack in Pakistan

    At least four missiles fired by two suspected US drone aircraft hit a house in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials say. At least 25 people were killed in the drone strike, which targeted what one Pakistani official termed a "militant guesthouse" in Hasan Khel, near.. More

  • Syria braces for 'Great Friday' protests

    Activists across Syria are gearing up for what they call "Great Friday", hoping to see the largest protests to date against Bashar al Assad, the president, in what could turn out to be a decisive day for Syria. Al Jazeera's Cal Perry, reporting from Damascus, said that protests were expected in over 40 cities across the country. "The.. More

  • Civilians killed in Misurata fighting

    At least five civilians have been killed in a day of fierce clashes between pro-government troops and opposition forces in the western city of Misurata. The fighting in Libya's third largest city on Wednesday follows weeks of clashes that have left hundreds of people dead and threaten to plunge the city into a humanitarian crisis as food and medical.. More

  • NATO air strike kills 17 people in Afghanistan

    Local officials in the Dangam District of Afghanistan’s restive Kunar Province have confirmed that at least three civilians were killed in an overnight air strike by NATO warplanes. The Provincial Governor said that the strike killed 17 people in total, and that two civilian women and a child were slain in the strike. NATO confirmed the attack.. More

  • Yemen protest camp 'fired at'

    One person has been killed after a gunman on a motorcycle fired into a Yemeni anti-government protest camp in the coastal town of Hudeida, witnesses say. The attacked happened as Muslim dawn prayers were held in al-Nasr Square on Wednesday, according to the witnesses. "One protester was killed and around eight others were wounded," Arafat.. More

  • Syria to lift decades-old emergency law

    Syria's government has passed a bill lifting the country's emergency law, in place for 48 years, just hours after security forces fired on protesters. Tuesday's move is a key demand of pro-reform demonstrators who have been holding protests across the country for weeks. A senior lawyer said Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, was yet to sign the legislation.. More

  • Mubarak deputy quizzed over protest deaths

    Omar Suleiman, the former Egyptian vice-president, has been questioned in connection with violence against protesters during the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the president, the general prosecutor's office has said. Suleiman, the country's long-time chief of intelligence, was questioned about "information held by the intelligence services.. More

  • Former Saleh allies form new party in Yemen

    Members of Yemen's ruling party including three former ministers formed a new bloc to support protests against the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president. The new party, called the Justice and Development Bloc, opposes the suppression of protests and is demanding an end to Saleh's 32-year rule, Mohammed Abu Lahoum, its leader, said on Monday. The.. More