Deadly fighting has spread across Yemen’s capital as tribesmen joined battles between rival military units, raising fears among residents the country is descending into civil war.

At least 21 people have been killed and over 100 injured in fresh clashes on the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, a day after 26 anti-government protesters were shot dead and hundreds wounded by troops and gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Gaza-based Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has slammed the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership in the United Nations, calling the move “political adventurism”.

Israeli diplomats evacuated the embassy in Amman after Jordanians scheduled to stage a protest outside the building, Alarabiya correspondent reported on Thursday.

Egyptians plan to return to Cairo’s Tahrir square on Friday in a “million man protest” billed as “Correcting the Path” of the revolution by pushing for an end to military trials of civilians and a reform of the election law they say was introduced by the dissolved former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

US officials have said they are investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat of a terror attack, reportedly involving bomb-laden vehicles ahead of this weekend’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Turkey’s naval forces would escort Turkish humanitarian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister has said, following Israel’s refusal to apologise for its deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the besieged Palestinian territory in May 2010.

The New York Police Department collected intelligence on more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and around New York, often using undercover officers and informants to canvas the Islamic population of America’s largest city, according to officials and confidential, internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Syrian security forces fired on protesters in several cities on Saturday night, killing four people in Aleppo, one in Damascus and another in Idlib, according to local Co-ordination Committees of Syria (LCC) activist network. Meanwhile, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said it was “pointless” to use force against uprisings, in a clear allusion to the […]

Issuing the first report documenting interworks of Islamophobia in the US, a new US report was issued depicting a group of foundations, think tanks and bloggers as the main players behind the 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the US.