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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

Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad

Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons

Rana Muhammad Taha

September 18, 2012

Muslims were urged to kill Salman Rushdie after he published "The Satanic Verses" in 1988 AFP Photo / Jerod Harris

Author of The Satanic Verses scorns anti-Islam movie

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

September 18, 2012

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 in east Turkey: seven dead

Kidnappings and attacks on civilians: PKK hardliners gaining upper hand

September 18, 2012

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

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

Saudi Arabia did not send its foreign minister

September 18, 2012

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

Romney: peace in Middle East “unthinkable”

Republican presidential candidate caught on camera

Nouran El-Behairy

September 18, 2012

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

Bahraini policemen to be tried for torture

Interior ministry recruits 500 new police officers

September 18, 2012

Palestinian women hold pictures of prisoners held in Israeli jails during a protest in Ramallah AFP / Abbas Momani

Palestinians show solidarity with fasting prisoners

Palestinians protesting in solidarity with four detainees

Daily News Egypt

September 18, 2012

Empty seat of the Syrian delegation at a session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

Confidential list of Syrian war crime suspects handed to UN

Over 20,000 deaths later, independent UN investigators conclude war crimes have been…

September 17, 2012

Passengers at Cairo airport Mohamed Omar

Israeli airline may stop Cairo flights

High economic costs, lengthy security processes, and low demand are the reasons…

September 17, 2012

Mohamed al-Megaryef speaks on his mobile phone ahead of visiting wounded Libyan security forces member at the Benghazi hospital on 14 September AFP PHOTO / ABDULLAH DOMA

Libya sacks Benghazi security chiefs

Deputy interior minister for the eastern region and the head of national…

Daily News Egypt

September 17, 2012