DUBAI (ALARABIYA( Saudi Arabia denied a British report alleging it has conducted tests to stand down its air defenses to allow Israeli warplanes to use its airspace in any bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

KHARTOUM (AFP) Exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday the Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip would not touch any of the $ 400 million in U.S. aid promised to the Palestinians.

BAGHDAD – A suicide car bomb in a central Iraqi town killed two American soldiers and wounded six others on Friday, a US military statement said.

KANDAHAR: Nato on Thursday blamed the Taliban for a suicide attack that killed at least 40 Afghan wedding guests in an area where US-led troops are massing to drive insurgents from their fiefdom.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: On 22 May, 2010, the Schmidt Girls School in East Jerusalem  flagrantly fired a Palestinian female teacher, Nadera al Nimmari, reportedly for wearing a headscarf.

KHARTOUM – Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, announced on Wednesday that it had freed 35 government soldiers captured in recent fighting.

NEW YORK – A former Pakistani-American student extradited from Britain was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for helping an al-Qaeda operative supply raincoats, ponchos and waterproof socks to militants in Afghanistan.

A US soldier serving in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly leaking a classified combat video to a whistleblower website, Wikileaks, last year.

Authorities in Yemen have detained 12 US nationals, amid a series of arrests in the country of foreigners suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda.

LONDON – A US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind a December attack in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty International (AI) said on Monday.