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Rebel military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani said fighters gained control ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/20/163144.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162964.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Archaeologists comb newly found Civil War POW camp</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Friday, 19 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162964.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/ce/ec/155x95_37428_162964.jpg"></a> <p>When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William T.Sherman was approaching, the prison camp’s Confederate officers rounded up their thousands of Union army POWs for a swift evacuation; they left behind rings, buckles, coins and other keepsakes that would remain undisturbed for nearly 150 years. ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162964.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162987.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Taliban-claimed twin blasts target British Council in Kabul, 10 killed</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Friday, 19 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162987.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/f6/6b/155x95_49316_162987.jpg"></a> <p>A coordinated attack Friday on a British compound in Kabul involving two suicide bombers and a five-hour long firefight between Afghan security troops and attackers who penetrated the complex killed at least 10 people, Afghan officials said. The attack on the British Council occurred as Afghans on Friday ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/162987.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163048.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Bomb attack kills 40, injures more than 100 during Friday prayers in northwest Pakistan</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Friday, 19 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163048.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/75/54/155x95_33745_163048.jpg"></a> <p>A bomb exploded in a Pakistani mosque during the main Friday prayers, killing 40 people and wounding more than 100 others in the tribal district of Khyber, an official said. It was the deadliest attack for two months in the nuclear-armed Muslim country awash with violence blamed on Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163048.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163103.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Norway killer to stay in isolation for evidence protection</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Friday, 19 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163103.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/4c/c8/155x95_81842_163103.jpg"></a> <p>Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will remain in solitary confinement for the next four weeks, a judge ordered on Friday. Breivik has admitted killing 77 people on July 22 - eight in a bombing in Oslo that destroyed the Norwegian government's headquarters and 69 gunned down on a nearby island. ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/19/163103.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162858.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Blast at US base in east Afghanistan as roadside bomb kills 22 and injures scores in west</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Thursday, 18 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162858.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/b0/00/155x95_29527_162858.jpg"></a> <p>A suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb near the entrance of a heavily-guarded US-run base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding three Afghan guards, police said as a roadside bomb in the west killed 22 civilians and wounded dozens of others. The Taliban, the main militant group leading an escalating ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162858.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162882.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">30 killed in Karachi overnight violence as Pakistan says it can bring Haqqani to peace talks</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Thursday, 18 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162882.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/ec/cc/155x95_23922_162882.jpg"></a> <p>At least 30 people died in overnight violence between rival ethnic groups and criminal gangs in Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi, police said Thursday, as Pakistan’s military says it can bring the Haqqani militant networkto the negotiation table. A former MP for the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Waja Karimdad, ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162882.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162943.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Israel faces fresh Arab pressure at UN atom meet</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Thursday, 18 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162943.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/0f/f5/155x95_42533_162943.jpg"></a> <p>Arab states are expected to target Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal at a UN nuclear agency meeting next month, despite Western concerns this may undermine broader steps to ban such weapons in the Middle East. It is unclear whether the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual member state gathering would back the ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/18/162943.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162666.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Merkel, Sarkozy propose eurozone government to halt debt crisis</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Wednesday, 17 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162666.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/61/1a/155x95_6376_162666.jpg"></a> <p>The leaders of France and Germany called Tuesday for greater economic discipline and unity among European nations but declined to take the expensive financial measures seen by many investors as the only way to halt the continent’s spiraling debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average fell, the euro slid ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162666.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162690.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Two British men jailed for inciting UK’s riots on Facebook</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Wednesday, 17 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162690.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/9a/a7/155x95_58498_162690.jpg"></a> <p>Two men who attempted to use social networking site Facebook to incite riots during last week’s unprecedented civil disorder in Britain were on Tuesday both jailed for four years, police said. Jordan Blackshaw, 20, from Cheshire and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, from Warrington, both in northwest England, were ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162690.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162702.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Ten years after 9/11 strikes, President Obama frets over “lone wolf” attack</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Wednesday, 17 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162702.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/0f/f7/155x95_65649_162702.jpg"></a> <p>US President Barack Obama on Tuesday played down prospects for a spectacular Al Qaeda attack 10 years after the September 11th strikes, saying he worried more now about solitary extremists. “The most likely scenario that we have to guard against right now ends up being more of a lone wolf operation than a ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/17/162702.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/16/162526.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">British teenager charged with London riot death as Cameron launches fightback</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Tuesday, 16 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/16/162526.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/ef/fa/155x95_59360_162526.jpg"></a> <p>A 16-year-old boy was to appear in court on Tuesday charged with the murder of a man during the London riots, a day after Prime Minister David Cameron launched his fightback against Britain’s “moral collapse.” The teenager was charged over the death of Richard Bowes, 68, who was attacked during last week’s ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/16/162526.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162400.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">UK’s Cameron could politically gain from tough riot response</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Monday, 15 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162400.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/c9/96/155x95_22191_162400.jpg"></a> <p>British Prime Minister David Cameron could gain a political advantage from the riots that swept British cities last week if he provides the strong law and order response many voters want. But the government’s insistence that it will stick to its stringent plans to cut public spending will limit his room for maneuver. ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162400.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162410.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Riot-hit UK must reverse “moral collapse,” says PM Cameron</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Monday, 15 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162410.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/34/43/155x95_88029_162410.jpg"></a> <p>Britain must confront its “slow-motion moral collapse,” Prime Minister David Cameron declared Monday, following four days of riots that left five people dead, thousands facing criminal charges and at least 200 million pounds ($350 million) in property losses. Mr. Cameron said his coalition government would ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/15/162410.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162218.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Gunmen, suicide bombers attack Afghan governor's compound, leave 19 dead</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Sunday, 14 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162218.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/7a/a7/155x95_72536_162218.jpg"></a> <p>A gun and suicide attack on an Afghan governor's compound killed 19 people and wounded nearly 40 others on Sunday in the latest Taliban assault raising fears about security just outside the capital Kabul. Abdul Basir Salangi, the governor of Parwan province, told a local television channel while gunbattles ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162218.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162240.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Norway gunman back on island to describe massacre: police</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Sunday, 14 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162240.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/90/0f/155x95_96352_162240.jpg"></a> <p>Anders Behring Breivik, who last month carried out the most murderous attacks on Norwegian soil since World War II, has returned to the site of his island massacre to describe the killing, police said Sunday. The 32-year-old rightwing extremist who on July 22 first set off a bomb outside government offices in ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162240.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162317.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Iranians protest over UK police ‘savagery’ in riots</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Sunday, 14 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162317.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/0f/f0/155x95_24417_162317.jpg"></a> <p>Some 200 students held a demonstration outside the British embassy in Tehran on Sunday to protest at what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the “savage” police treatment of people involved in street unrest in London last week. Watched by around 50 riot police, some students threw eggs towards the embassy compound and ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162317.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162318.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">This is how I killed them: Norway attacker back on island, describes carnage</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Sunday, 14 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162318.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/90/0c/155x95_83829_162318.jpg"></a> <p>Norwegian police took confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik back to Utoeya island to stage a reconstruction of his hour-long slaughter of 69 people there three weeks ago. In a photograph of the visit carried by the VG newspaper, 32-year-old Breivik is shown standing in a shooting position, as if aiming a rifle at ... <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162318.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">Read More</a></p> </div> <div class="archive-box"> <h1><a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162324.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1">President Obama embarks on campaign-style Midwest bus tour</a></h1> <p class="article-date">Sunday, 14 August 2011</p> <a href="/web/20110820072952/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/14/162324.html?PHPSESSID=hd89ssnoqe2ttrsffd4ii24sc1"><img width="155" height="95" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110820072952im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/c6/63/155x95_3021_162324.jpg"></a> <p>President Barack Obama hits the road on Monday for a US Midwestern bus tour that he hopes will leave doubts over his leadership behind in Washington. 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