Somalia’s al-Shabab wants to join terror’s big league

Bolivia’s triborder zone a haven for terror funding

Six detainees would rather stay at Guantanamo Bay than be returned to Algeria

Islamist preacher warns France against banning the burka

Syria courts Latin America for oil, trade, and expats

Somali pirate cook saves hostages, then disappears

US deploys tech firms to win Syrian allies

Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites

Mideast – Aid ship had ‘two terrorists aboard’

A new Middle East triangle?

Al-Jazeera presenters quit over ‘modesty’ dress comments

North Korea ‘is exporting nuclear technology’

Syria accused of arming Hezbollah from secret bases

Hezbollah entrenched in Lebanon years after Israel left

Syria defies Western pressure over Hezbollah

The US and Israel’s defense secretaries accused Syria of arming Hezbollah with advanced missiles that can strike deep into Israel. But Israel’s defense minister said his country does not “intend to provoke any kind of major collision in Lebanon, or vis-a-vis Syria….”

Manaf Abdulrehim al Rawi had been appointed the emir of the Iraqi capital in 2008 by the recently slain leader of the Islamic State of Iraq. Rawi’s detention several weeks ago helped lead to the deaths of al Qaeda’s top two leaders in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al Baghdadi.

Israel warns Syria over Hezbollah attacks

Syria: a new level of threat

Burma – The next nuclear nightmare

Syria gave Scuds to Hezbollah, US says

Ahmad Khalaf Shabib al Dulaymi supports al Qaeda in Iraq as well as the global network, while Atilla Selek supports the Islamic Jihad Union and has operated in Pakistan.

Saudis fund Balkan Muslims spreading hate of the West

Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast

A new IAEA report on Syria’s suspected nuclear program said that the facility at Dair Alzour was likely an initial attempt to construct a nuclear reactor. Israel destroyed the Dair Alzour complex during airstrikes in September 2008.

Satellite imagery showing a suspected nuclear facility in Syria before and after being destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. Image from Deutsche Welle. In the midnight hours of Sept. 5, 2007, 10 Israeli F-15 fighter jets departed from Ramat David Air Force Base in southeast Haifa with a mission to destroy a mysterious military complex in the middle of the Syrian desert. Eighteen minutes later, the complex at Dair Alzour was demolished-Operation Orchard was a success. Was the complex an initial Syrian attempt to construct a nuclear reactor, as claimed by the Israelis, or was it merely, as the Syrians maintain,…

Syria – Analysis: Assad sits comfortably on his throne

Analysis: negotiation with Iran an ‘unending waltz’
