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Pakistani Gunman Is Shot By Police, Ending Standoff In Islamabad 26 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
From New York Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A bizarre standoff between a gunman and the Islamabad police ended late Thursday night when the suspect was shot and wounded, then taken into custody. The ...
Karzai Arrives Islamabad, Looking For Taliban Peace 26 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
From The News: President Hamid Karzai during his one-day visit will be meeting President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other high officials here. It is Karzai's first visit to Is...
Egypt's Christians Caught In Cross Fire 26 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
From Time: Drenched in sweat and covered in ash, 24-year-old Miriam Nagi has spent the past eight days mopping soot inside St. George’s Church. She’s cleaning up after a fire raged there last week, ...
Trial Of Muslim Brotherhood Leader Signals Intensity Of Crackdown In Egypt 26 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
From The Washington Post: CAIRO — The first time that Mohammed Badie was jailed for his involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, it was 1965 and his cellmates included Sayyid Qutb, the influential Is...
Iraq Attacks Leave 27 Dead 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
From CNN: (CNN) -- Shootings and explosions throughout Iraq on Sunday killed at least 27 people and injured more than 60 others, police said. In one attack, police said, a hidden bomb detonated insi...
Bombings Strike Lebanon, As Mosques Are Targeted In Growing Violence 24 Aug 2013 | 11:05 am
From New York Times: TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in this northern Lebanese city on Friday as many worshipers were just finishing prayers, killing dozens of people,...
Sectarian Clashes In Pakistan Kill 9 People 24 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
From ABC News: Members of a radical Sunni Muslim group clashed Friday with minority Shiites in central Pakistan, fighting that killed nine, police said. The clashes between the Ahle Sunnat Waljamaat...
Syria Under Pressure To Allow Urgent Probe Of Chemical Weapons Claim 24 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
From CNN: Damascus (CNN) -- U.N. inspectors in Syria face a race against time to get to the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack to gather vital evidence, but the big question Friday was whethe...
Suicide Bombing In Park, Attacks Kill 32 In Iraq 24 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
From USA Today: BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a park in northern Baghdad crowded by cafe- and restaurant-goers Friday night, the bloodiest attack in a day of violence that killed at least ...
Syrian Kurds Find More Than A Refuge In Northern Iraq 24 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
From New York Times: SAHELA, Iraq — Some were moved by fears that the violence in Syria would soon find them, as rumors of beheadings by Islamist militants circulated from one village to another. “T...
