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Mogadishu violence kills 6,500 in past year
Conflict in Somalia killed 6,501 civilians in the capital Mogadishu in 2007 and wounded 8,516 more, a local human rights group said on Monday. The Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization said it had recorded 1.5 million people uprooted from homes in the city during a year that began with the toppling of the Islamist movement. The group's chairman,.. More -
Stranded pilgrims riot in Egypt
Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims have rioted in temporary camps set up to house them until a dispute over their return to the Gaza Strip has been resolved. Israel has insisted that the pilgrims returning from Hajj must all pass through Israeli crossing points from Egypt, saying that some may be carrying arms or money for Hamas. The pilgrims have.. More -
New Darfur force begins mission
A joint United Nations-African Union force has taken over peacekeeping operations in Sudan's western Darfur province after months of international pressure on Khartoum to allow it to deploy. During the transfer ceremony at the mission's headquarters on Monday, African troops swapped their green berets for the blue of UN-mandated missions. Rodolphe.. More -
Sunni forces targeted in Iraq
At least 11 people, including five children, have been killed after a suicide bomber crashed a lorry into a checkpoint in the central Iraqi town of Tarmiyah. Six volunteers from the local Awakening Council, one of many Sunni groups that have begun taking on al-Qaeda in Iraq, also died in the attack on Monday, a police spokesman said. Security officials.. More -
Bhutto's party to decide successor
The political party of Benazir Bhutto, the late Pakistani opposition leader, is meeting in southern Pakistan to choose her successor and decide whether to contest or boycott elections due in a little over a week. Bhutto's assassination three days earlier has thrown into doubt the January 8 poll and stoked violence, killing at least 47 people. Rioters.. More -
Iraq on Saddam anniversary alert
Security forces in Iraq have been placed on alert on the first anniversary of the execution of former President Saddam Hussein. His supporters are expected to gather at his power base in the city of Tikrit, and at his grave nearby. Saddam was hanged after being convicted of the killings of nearly 150 Shia Muslims in Dujail in the 1980s. He was.. More -
Sudan accuses Chad of bombing Darfur
Sudan has accused Chadian aircraft of bombing its western Darfur region in what it called "repeated aggressions" by its western neighbor. Relations between the two African oil producers have been touchy in recent years as both try to quell insurgencies close to their long and porous border. They accuse each other of backing rebels trying to overthrow.. More -
Bin Laden issues warning on Iraq
Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden warned Muslims against supporting Iraq's US-backed government and promised the "liberation of Palestine," in a new online message issued Saturday. In the 56-minute tape, he accused the United States of seeking to control the region through the Iraqi government, according to SITE, a US-based institute that monitors “extremist.. More -
Speaker of Yemeni parliament dies
Yemen is holding three days of mourning after the speaker of the country's parliament died in Saudi Arabia. The official Saba news agency reported on Saturday that Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar had died in a hospital in Riyadh after six months' of treatment for cancer. Al-Ahmar was head of the opposition Islah (Reform) party. Al-Ahmar.. More -
Fighters deny Bhutto killing link
The commander of a pro-Taliban group in Pakistan has told news agencies by phone that Baitullah Mehsud, another pro-Taliban figure, denies any involvement in Benazir Bhutto's death. Maulana Omar said on Saturday: "He [Mehsud] had no involvement in this attack. This is a conspiracy of the government, army and intelligence agencies." A Pakistani official.. More -
Gaza pilgrims stranded off Egypt
More than 2,000 Palestinians returning from the annual Hajj pilgrimage have been left stranded on boats off the Egyptian coast after Cairo denied them permission to return to Gaza. Egypt has demanded the Palestinians return to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip via Israel, but many fear they will be detained by the authorities if they do On Saturday, Hamas.. More -
'Several killed' in Baghdad blast
At least 14 people have been killed and more than 60 injured after a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, police and hospital officials said. The blast occurred at the popular Bab al-Sharji market near the city's Tayaran Square - a part of central Baghdad that has been targeted by fighters in the past. Many of the victims of Friday's.. More -
Al-Qaeda blamed for Bhutto killing
The Pakistani government has said it has evidence al-Qaeda was responsible was for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister who was buried earlier on Friday. Javed Cheema, an interior ministry spokesman, said security forces had intercepted a phone call from an al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan after Bhutto's death on Thursday. "We.. More -
Lebanon election delayed again
Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed for the 11th time since first being scheduled more than three months ago. The vote has been moved from Saturday to January 12, according to the parliament speaker on Friday, a delay that threatens to further destabilize the politically divided country. Rival leaders have agreed on General Michel.. More -
Ethiopia leaves key Somali town
Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from a key town in central Somalia. Islamist fighters say they now control Guriel, where Ethiopia had a big military base to secure the road linking the two countries. A BBC correspondent in Somalia says it is not clear why the Ethiopian troops withdrew without any fighting. Guriel was a stronghold of the Union.. More
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