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Members of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrate in the Jordanian capital Amman in November 2011 (File photo) AFP PHOTO / Khalil Mazraawi
authority

Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood causes contreversy

The Jordanian Brotherhood's new plan to limit powers of the king

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Security personnel from the government of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas took 71 West Bank Palestinians into custody (File photo) AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI
arrest

Dozens of Palestinians arrested in West Bank

Rights groups condemn West Bank authorities' detainment of Palestinians

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Newsweek cover page with “Muslim Rage” headline
copts

Newsweek releases controversial “Muslim rage” cover

Online groups find humour in sensationalist cover title

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Syrian rebels help a wounded comrade who survived a Syrian army strike outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on 18 September AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
Al-assad

Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad

Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Muslims were urged to kill Salman Rushdie after he published "The Satanic Verses" in 1988 AFP Photo / Jerod Harris
Anti-Islam

Author of The Satanic Verses scorns anti-Islam movie

Publishes memoir of the past 10 years, discusses freedom of expression

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
Turkish soldiers stand guard as smokes rises from a bus which was attacked by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Bingol AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
attack

Attack in east Turkey: seven dead

Kidnappings and attacks on civilians: PKK hardliners gaining upper hand

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr (centre), Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (right), and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a joint press conference after their first high-level meeting on the Syria conflict in Cairo AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
Arab League

Egypt, Iran, and Turkey in high level talks over Syria

Saudi Arabia did not send its foreign minister

Connor Molloy
Connor Molloy
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to the press in Costa Mesa, California AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM
elections

Romney: peace in Middle East “unthinkable”

Republican presidential candidate caught on camera

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Seven Bahraini police officers have been charged with torture and maltreatment of Shi’a medics (File photo) AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
bahrain

Bahraini policemen to be tried for torture

Interior ministry recruits 500 new police officers

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Palestinian women hold pictures of prisoners held in Israeli jails during a protest in Ramallah AFP / Abbas Momani
citizens

Palestinians show solidarity with fasting prisoners

Palestinians protesting in solidarity with four detainees

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt