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TEHRAN - Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Friday he was ready to die for his reformist campaign after a disputed election in June, defying hardline calls for his execution.
BAGHDAD - A top US general hailed progress in Iraq on Friday while American forces underwent a transformation, with their command renamed to reflect the fact that no other countries have troops here.
Yemeni forces clashed with Shia rebels, killing 11 in a country where Washington and Riyadh fear al Qaeda may be gaining a stronger foothold.
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s human rights minister told AFP on Friday she was “astonished” by a US judge’s decision to dismiss criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews is spending the Sabbath in Gaza in an unlikely show of support for Palestinians in the Hamas-run coastal strip.
SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed for reason from Shiite rebels in the north, separatists in the south and Al-Qaeda militants in an article published on Friday to mark the new year.
BAGHDAD - The leading American general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says the upcoming Iraq election in March is of "enormous importance" to the country's future, but warned of violence leading up to it.
CAIRO - A council of leading Muslim clerics has supported the Egyptian government's construction of an underground barrier along the border with Gaza to impede tunnelling by smugglers, a report said on Friday.
The number of people killed across Iraq in December was 367 and the civilian death toll in 2009 was 2,800, making the year the least violent since the US-led invasion of 2003, officials said on Friday.