Barak: We Can’t Count Only on Regime Change in Iran
5 Jan 2011 (JP) The Islamic regime in Iran will likely not be around in another decade, but Israel cannot rely on a regime change when confronting the Iranian nuclear threat, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday.
Violent protests break out across Algeria
DUBAI (Al Arabiya)
Angry youth protest hard living conditions
Algeria’s angry youth violently clashed late on Wednesday with security forces in a number of 
South Sudan gets ready for independence referendum
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Agencies)
Bashir comments “extremely encouraging”: Kerry
United States Senator John Kerry on Wednesday in Khartoum hailed as “extremely 
Iran possession of Lebanon Christian property on rise
DUBAI (Jomaa Okash)
Purchases aim to divide country: labor minister
The recent rise in Iranian purchases of property owned by Christians stirred controversy in
Lebanon as the Islamic republic is
Turkish police detain 10 Qaeda suspects
ISTANBUL (Reuters)
Qaeda suspects planning New Year attacks: report
Turkish police have detained 10 suspected al-Qaeda militants who they believe were planning an 
Basra Mulls Breaking Away from Baghdad
28 Dec 2010 (Washington Times) BASRA, Iraq | Over a recent dinner, two friends — both local businessmen — dished over a simmering topic in Iraq’s oil-rich port city: whether to boost Basra’s 
Iraq Death Toll Set to be Lowest since Invasion
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The number of civilian deaths this year from violence in Iraq is set to be the lowest since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by
Indictment Could be Blow to Lebanon’s Hezbollah
BEIRUT, (AP) – Hezbollah says looming indictments by a U.N. court for the assassination of a former prime minister are of no concern to the group. Hezbollah’s leader, in fact, says he is so 
Sudan opposition leader gives govt month ultimatum
DUBAI (Al Arabiya)
Sudan’s Sadiq al-Mahdi urges political reform
Sdanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi declared giving the government one month to 
Tehran hangs convicted “Mossad spy”: reports
Convict gave Mossad info on Iranian missiles
TEHRAN (Agencies)
Iran on Tuesday hanged a man convicted of giving information on Iranian missiles to Israeli 
