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October 7, 2012
6:51 am

Free Syrian Army soldier throws a petrol bomb at Syrian Army positions in Saif Al Dawle district in Aleppo, October 3 (photo credit: AP/ Manu Brabo)

Citing US worries, Arab allies hold back on arming Syrian rebels

From the web Gulf states won’t give opposition fighters larger weapons, which the US fears may end up in terrorists’ hands, the New York Times reports

October 1, 2012
7:37 pm

Person holds the Monday issue of daily Metro fronted with two images from Swedish and Saudi Arabian IKEA catalogue for next year. Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets. Comparing the Swedish and Saudi versions of the Ikea catalogue, Sweden's free newspaper Metro on Monday showed that women had been airbrushed out of otherwise identical pictures showcasing the company's home furnishings. The headline reads Ikea Erase Women. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Henrik Montgomery)

Ikea deletes women from Saudi version of catalog

Comparing the Swedish and Saudi shows female models airbrushed from otherwise identical shots

By Karl Ritter

September 29, 2012
2:11 am

A man cries near the body of his brother, killed by a Syrian Army sniper, in Aleppo on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Security Council’s inaction on Syria gives Assad ‘green light’ to kill, says Saudi diplomat

Syrian president is in a ‘race’ to accomplish his objectives of death and destruction, General Assembly told

September 29, 2012
12:26 am

A Free Syrian Army soldier after firing a recoilless rifle during clashes with Syrian government forces in the village of Mukhtariya in the suburbs of Homs, Syria. (photo credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP video)

Free Syrian Army fighters aren’t extremists or ‘al-Qaeda types,’ group’s DC fundraiser insists

Representative says the Syrian opposition is committed to a multi-ethnic, democratic future after Assad

By Michal Shmulovich

September 21, 2012
11:34 pm

In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a wounded woman, still in shock, leaves Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

Iraq bars Syria-bound plane with suspected arms

Decision could close supply line for Assad; US seeks ban of Iranian aircraft with similar cargo

By Karin Laub

September 19, 2012
12:17 am

Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down during clashes with police near the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi Arabia blocks YouTube over anti-Mohammad film furor

Gulf power latest Muslim state to put curbs on Internet following release of trailer for film

September 18, 2012
2:56 pm

UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (photo credit: Torsten Silz/AP)

UN-Arab League envoy visits Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan

Lakhdar Brahimi receives cool reception at Jordanian camp for meeting with Assad

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

September 18, 2012
3:10 am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

No easy solution to Syrian crisis, ‘Islamic Quartet’ leaders say

Foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt discuss brutal civil war

September 18, 2012
1:45 am

The Kaaba in Mecca (photo credit: CC BY-SA Al Jazeera English, Flickr)

Syrians barred from making pilgrimage to Mecca

Damascus blames Saudi Arabia for not letting Muslim countrymen perform the Hajj

September 17, 2012
12:41 am

Syrian rebels pray at their headquarters near Aleppo, September 10 (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Damascus accuses Turkey of letting mujahideen cross into Syria

Foreign Ministry claims that Ankara has allowed thousands of Muslim terrorists to ‘spread chaos and destruction’

September 15, 2012
6:59 am

A Palestinian Muslim reads the Holy Quran at the Al-Omari mosque in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Key questions, answers about the Prophet Muhammad

Why is there such an outcry over the portrayal of the key figure of Islamic history in the controversial film entitled ‘Innocence of Muslims’?

By Aya Batrawy

September 13, 2012
1:35 am

Libyans celebrate in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli after voting in the first democratic election in decades in July (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Eleven years after 9/11, two-thirds of US travel warnings relate to the Muslim world

Of 32 standing State Department travel warnings, 22 are for Muslim-majority countries, with Libya the subject of the latest alert

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 12, 2012
4:40 pm

Egyotian President Mohammed Morsi (left) shakes hands with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the NAM conference, August 30, 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Egypt to offer Iran enhanced ties in exchange for dropping Assad support

The move is the centerpiece of a diplomatic push by Morsi

By Hamza Hendawi

September 11, 2012
4:32 am

Egypt hosts meeting of 4 nations in new Syria push

Turkish, Saudi and Iranian diplomats meet in Cairo to try to end standoff between Bashar Assad and rebels

September 1, 2012
10:48 pm

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard celebrate after launching a missile, July 2012 (photo credit: AP/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi)

Iran briefly threatens to cause ‘fiasco’ for US if it attacks Syria

Warning from top Iranian Revolutionary Guard official quickly removed from official Iranian website

By Ilan Ben Zion

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