Report: Bahrain Police Search Home Of Top Cleric
May 17th, 2013MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation’s most senior Shiite cleric, who has strongly sided with anti-government protesters. The reported raid could touch off more clashes on the strategic island nation, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. The group Al Wefaq
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Official: Nigeria Military Shells Camps, Kills 21
May 17th, 2013MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday. The fighting was in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers
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Report: Torture Evidence Found In Syrian Prisons
May 17th, 2013BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under the control of the opposition, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
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Bombs At Mosques In Northwest Pakistan Kill 13
May 17th, 2013PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 13 people, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government led by Nawaz Sharif set to take power. The blasts at the two Sunni Muslim mosques also wounded 45 people, said tribal police
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Iraqis Mourn 2 Shiite Fighters Killed In Syria
May 17th, 2013BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqis attended the Friday funeral in a southern city of two Shiite fighters killed in Syria. Several such funerals have been held in recent months, the latest sign that the conflict has taken on a sectarian regional dimension. Mourners in the oil-rich city of Basra carried the coffin of
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