A report says about 18,000 Saudi-backed Salafists are currently stationed in the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq and the northwestern city of Ramtha near the Syrian border. According to a recent report published by the Arabic Nakhel news agency, the Salafists have been stationed in Mafraq and Ramtha under the “pretext of receiving medical treatment” in Jordan. The report also mentioned one of... 

Saudi-backed security forces in Bahrain have detained more than 100 protesters during anti-regime demonstrations across the country over the past two days. Activists said on Thursday the Bahraini regime forces rounded up at least 100 peaceful protesters on February 14 and 15. Some of the detainees are said to be women and that there are wounded people among those arrested. Manama has stepped up its... 

The Syrian government has declared February 26 as the date for a referendum on the country’s new draft constitution, Syrian state news agency says. “President Bashar al-Assad issued today a decree setting Sunday, February 26, as the date for the referendum on the draft constitution,” SANA reported on Wednesday. The news agency added that Assad made the decision after he received... 

The Arab League has called for the UN Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad’s regime. CAIRO: The Arab League has called for the UN Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad’s regime,... 

CAIRO: The Sudanese head of the Arab League observer mission to Syria resigned Sunday, hours before foreign ministers were to consider a proposal to send a new mission to the country including U.N. monitors, according to officials. The group meeting in Cairo was also considering a proposal to expel Syrian ambassadors from Arab capitals. At the same time, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri threw the terror... 

BAGHDAD: Al-Qaida’s chief has called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, saying they cannot depend on the West for help. Ayman al-Zawahri, in a videotaped statement released late Saturday, asked Muslims in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to join the uprising against Assad’s “pernicious, cancerous regime.”... 

DUBAI: Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of Libya’s former leader Moamer Gaddafi, has promised to return to his country where he said a nationwide rebellion was brewing against its new rulers. “I will return to Libya at any time,” Saadi Gaddafi told Al-Arabiya television by telephone from Niger where he took refuge after the fall of Tripoli which ended his father’s 42-year iron-fisted... 

The Western states are “accomplices in the process of inflaming the [Syrian] crisis.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has accused the West of being an ‘accomplice’ in the aggravation of the Syrian unrest. The Western states are “accomplices in the process of inflaming the crisis,” he said on Friday and noted that the... 

BEIRUT: Dozens of civilians were killed on Wednesday as government troops pressed a relentless assault on the flashpoint Syrian city of Homs for a fifth straight day, flattening many buildings, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths were caused by shelling and gunfire from Syrian forces, and added that three entire families were also killed overnight in the central... 

Protesters in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province to condemn the killing of demonstrators by Riyadh regime forces. Demonstrators held protest rallies in the eastern towns of Qatif and Awamiyah, demanding prosecution for the police officers responsible for shooting protesters. The protesters also called on the government to release thousands of political...