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U.S. has been operating secret drone base in Saudi Arabia for two years
The United States has been operating a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia for the past two years as a launch pad for attacks on terrorist targets in Yemen, it emerged Wednesday.
The first pilotless CIA mission flown from the base killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born cleric and senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and a deputy in September 2011, reports said. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)
‘Today is your last day, ambassador’: Embassies under siege as anti-Islam film protests spread
Demonstrators, furious at a film they say insults the Prophet Mohammad, clashed with police near the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Friday before a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood which propelled Egypt’s Islamist president to power.
See the winning photographs from the 2012 World Press Photo of the Year awards
For photojournalists it is the creme de la creme—an award they all secretly, or publicly covet. And, invariably, it comes with huge personal risk, because following the news often means placing oneself in harms way. Here are some of the winning pictures, more at the link. (Photos: New York Times/Corbis/Reuters)
Photo of the day
Anti-government protesters perform weekly Friday prayers during a rally to demand the trial of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, November 25, 2011. (Photo: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
Muammar Gaddafi’s violent end a warning to Syria and Yemen, Arabs say
For many Arabs, the humiliating capture and killing of Muammar Gaddafi, the longest-serving Arab leader, is a lesson to other tyrants in a region that has overthrown three long-serving rulers this year.
But some said on Friday that Libya would have been better off if its former leader had been given a fair trial for abuses committed during his 42-year rule, which ended when rebels captured the capital Tripoli in August.
“The world now has one less dictator,” said Ziad Khalil, a Beirut shopkeeper, a day after Gaddafi’s death. “This is the end he deserves.”
Gaddafi attacks rebel towns, U.S. plane down
In the first apparent air force casualty of the campaign, a U.S. F-15E crashed in Libya overnight and its two crew members were rescued, the U.S. military said. The crash was likely caused by mechanical failure and not hostile fire, it said. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
Coalition forces: Why Libya?
International forces launched military action in Libya, but in Bahrain and Yemen — where 50 protesters were shot dead by pro-government snipers — the allies have offered nothing more than the verbal equivalent of a slap on the wrist.
Photos of the day, March 1, 2011
A Yemeni protester chants slogans calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a massive anti-regime rally in the capital Sanaa on, March 1, 2011. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
Photos of the day: A veiled Yemeni woman wears a headband with the national flags colours as tens of thousands of anti-government Yemenis demonstrate after the Friday prayers in the capital Sanaa on February 25, 2011 in demand that veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Graphic: Fatal price of protest in the Middle East
Several thousand Shi’ites turned out in Bahrain on Friday to bury three of those killed in a crackdown ordered by the island state’s Sunni ruling family to quell opposition protests inspired by Egypt. Below, a roundup of protests across the Middle East.
National Post front page: Feb. 18, 2011
How Canada’s ‘haves’ get had
Cut was bungled, but still justified
Arab regimes crack down on dissent
Anger rages through the Middle East and North Africa
From Benghazi to Bahrain, a new generation clashed with government forces, demanding more freedom and an end to autocratic control.
Bahrain police break up protest camp, three killed
Bahraini police stormed a protest camp in central Manama on Thursday, killing three people in a swift move to prevent protesters from emulating Egyptians whose Tahrir Square protests helped topple Hosni Mubarak.
Goodspeed Analysis: Is Libya ripe for revolution? Probably not
“Libya’s political order is beginning to fray, but as long as the state continues to provide jobs and services, demands for additional civil and political rights will remain muted,” predicts a recent report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Jonathan Kay: Democracy will prevail in Egypt and across the Middle East
When the history of the Arab democratic revolution is written — whether in a month, a year or a decade — a sacrosanct place will be reserved for Mohammed Bouazizi, the 26-year-old man Tunisian street peddler who immolated himself last month after enduring a litany of abuses from the country’s unaccountable bureaucrats and police.
His plight symbolized the quiet, simmering sense of imprisonment felt by millions of his countrymen — and his name was on the lips of the protestors who brought down the nation’s government. The fuse that he lit has made its way to powder kegs in Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and — most significantly — Egypt, by far the most populous state in the Arab world.
(Photo: Egyptian demonstrators gather for prayers close to a destroyed vehicle filled with garbage in Tahrir Square in Cairo, on January 31, 2011, on the seventh day of mass protests calling for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
Taking to the streets: Unrest swept across the Arab world in the past week. A look at what’s happening.
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