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al Qaeda had warned to set off a “nuclear hellstorm” if Osama bin Laden is ever captured or killed.

Testimony unveiled on Sunday in documents released by Wikileaks from prisoners of the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba is not reliable because they were subjected to torture or other forms of coercion, or include false statements by other prisoners, an expert on the matter says.

Yemen's long-serving autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh will relinquish office in a month's time under a deal that saves him from possible prosecution in the future.

Sen. John McCain, who visited the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday, called for the United States and every other nation to recognize the rebels fighting against forces led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi and for responsible nations to arm them.

Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned that the civil war in Libya is moving towards stalemate, while conceding that air strikes by NATO and the U.S. have destroyed 30 percent to 40 percent of Moammar Gaddafi's ground forces.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated that President Barack Obama approved the use of armed, unmanned Predator drone aircraft to assist the coalition military campaign in Libya.

Security forces in the city of Homs in Syria have opened fire to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, according to media reports and witness accounts.

Islamist militants have killed at least thirteen government soldiers in Algeria on the same day that the country’s president announced a series of reforms to quell protests.

Dozens of people have been injured in a major clash between hard-line Islamic protesters and government supporters in the town of Zarqa in Jordan on Friday.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a crowded mosque during Friday prayers injuring more than 26 people in the town of Cirebon, western Java.

Opposition forces in Yemen have spurned a peace initiative by the Gulf States to resolve the country’s political crisis and have now set a two-week deadline for embattled President Ali Abdullah to resign his office.

A clash in Yemeni capitol of Sanaa between pro-government forces and those loyal to an opposition figure who defected has led to the deaths of at least five people.

The embattled president of Yemen who has faced several weeks of unrelenting protest demonstrations has reportedly agreed to a proposal by neighboring Gulf states to end the crisis in his poverty-stricken country.

U.S. officials knew about the Yemeni opposition deep discontent over their president at least two years ago, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

Yemen’s embattled president, under pressure from virtually all sides to step down after more than three decades in power, has defiantly rejected a proposal by other Gulf Arab states to mediate his resignation.

The Department of Homeland Security will use Facebook, Twitter to send terror alerts to the public.

Moammar Gaddafi has sent U.S. President Barack Obama a three-page letter in which he asked the western coalition to stop bombing Libya.

A senior security official in Algeria claims that the Al Qaeda terrorist organization is taking advantage of the turmoil in Libya to purchase weapons, according to Reuters.

After weeks on unyielding unrest in Yemen, one of the most powerful allies of that country’s president, the United States, is now engineering a policy shift in which is not seeks to remove the Yemeni leader from power.

At least a dozen anti-regime protesters have been killed and thirty wounded in the town of Taiz in Southern Yemen by snipers firing from rooftops, according to a media as cited by Al Jazeera.

Thousands of protesters in the southern province of Aden in Yemen have clashed with police and army tanks, following a general strike in a demonstration to demand the immediate resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.