"Quick, I-V." "Is he breathing?" "Flip him over." "Heart rate? Pulse?" The nurses' commands and questions filled the recovery room at an Egyptian hospital.
The FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent told a congressional panel Wednesday he is not being allowed to work on important counterterrorism assignments, despite a shortage of agents who speak Arabic.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.
Al-Jazeera broadcast Monday an audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calling on al Qaeda and other groups in Iraq to unify their forces and speak with one voice, that of the Islamic nation.
A public school in New York that will teach Arabic language and culture opened Tuesday amid accusations that it will impose a radical Islamist agenda in its classrooms.
"Quick, I-V." "Is he breathing?" "Flip him over." "Heart rate? Pulse?" The nurses' commands and questions filled the recovery room at an Egyptian hospital.
The FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent told a congressional panel Wednesday he is not being allowed to work on important counterterrorism assignments, despite a shortage of agents who speak Arabic.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.
Al-Jazeera broadcast Monday an audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calling on al Qaeda and other groups in Iraq to unify their forces and speak with one voice, that of the Islamic nation.
A public school in New York that will teach Arabic language and culture opened Tuesday amid accusations that it will impose a radical Islamist agenda in its classrooms.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has confirmed the arrests of scores of suspects in an anti-terror sweep related to a terror plot involving attacks on senior officials and government oil, military and security installations, according to a statement posted on the state-run Saudi Press Agency Web site.
Naguib Mahfouz, the legendary Egyptian story-teller who is the only writer in Arabic to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, has died aged 95 in Cairo, his doctor said.
Hezbollah militants Sunday fired more than 180 rockets into northern Israel, killing three civilians in Haifa and 12 Israeli reservists who had just been called up to fight in Lebanon, according to Israeli officials.
Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, says in a videotape aired Friday that he grieves over the death of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A Web site message purportedly from Osama bin Laden says admitted al Qaeda follower Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
RIYADH, April 25 (Reuters) - A Saudi-German plan to launch a dedicated Arabic language search engine for the World Wide Web could revolutionize the moribund Arabic Internet market, a senior official in the project said.
Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told a roommate in Oklahoma that fighting a holy war was the only way to get to paradise, according to testimony at his sentencing trial Tuesday.
He spoke fluent Arabic but rusty English. He had plenty of cash, but didn't seem like the playboy type. He said he wanted to learn to fly a jumbo jet simply to impress his pals.
Mary Beth Carroll, the mother of abducted journalist Jill Carroll, urged the woman's captors Thursday to release her daughter, saying "they've picked the wrong person."
With the kidnappers' Friday deadline looming, the newspaper for which abducted American journalist Jill Carroll works said Wednesday that it is "availing itself of every option we can think of to secure her release."
Employees of the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera have been protesting over a recent report by a British tabloid that the U.S. allegedly planned to bomb the network's headquarters in Qatar -- a report vehemently denied by the White House.
The letter is a road map to jihad. A lecture about murderous techniques. A plea for money. Full of gossip about the life of a terrorist. And a revealing look inside al Qaeda.
Al-Jazeera TV has broadcast what it says was a videotape of Mohammed Siddiq Khan claiming responsibility for the July 7 London bombings, which killed 52 people and the four bombers.
A purported al Qaeda video aired on an Arabic-language news network appears to show the photo identification card and weapon of one of the Navy SEALs killed in late June in eastern Afghanistan, a Navy official said.
The Islamic Army in Iraq claimed responsibility for shooting down a helicopter Thursday and killing all 11 people onboard -- one of them apparently executed after surviving the crash.
The Bush administration is planning to expand the reach of its Arabic-language satellite channel, Alhurra, into Europe, an official overseeing the network said Sunday.
Top Iraqi officials disputed reports that former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi would be arrested, a day after the interim defense minister said an apprehension was to happen soon.
The British Embassy in Baghdad has released an Arabic language radio appeal in an ongoing effort to win the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was taken captive 11 days ago.
Egyptian officials in Cairo and Washington dismissed a CNN report Tuesday that their government paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom for the release of an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq.
The government of Kenya on Thursday released the names of three citizens kidnapped in Iraq, along with four other men, by a group that has threatened to behead them if their demands are not met.
The last Philippine peacekeeping troops have left Iraq, meeting a demand by militants holding a Filipino hostage but defying opposition from its allies.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Hassoun, the 24-year-old translator who disappeared June 19 and resurfaced this week in Lebanon, is in good physical condition and in "good spirits," Marine officials said Friday.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who disappeared from his unit in Iraq last month and was depicted on a videotape as having been captured by insurgents, arrived Thursday evening at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, the State Department said.
A mortar attack killed five U.S. troops and an Iraqi National Guard member Thursday in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, according to a U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit.
Marine Cpl. Wassef Hassoun, who disappeared from his unit in Iraq last month, was reported safe with family members in his hometown in Lebanon by a source close to the family Wednesday.
The brother of a U.S. Marine missing in Iraq said Tuesday that a blindfolded man shown in a video with a curved sword above his head is his brother and pleaded for his captors to "just release him."
The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera reports it has received a statement and a videotape from militants who claimed to have killed 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Matt Maupin, missing since April.
In an audiotape broadcast Friday on the Arabic-language television network Al-Arabiya, a man claims to be al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and charges that Americans don't want democracy and freedom in the Arab world.
Russia said it still has concerns about the draft U.N. resolution on Iraq proposed by the United States and Britain and that it "needs some hard work," according to Interfax.
The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera showed video Wednesday of three Italian hostages taken captive in Iraq nearly two months ago. In the video, one of the men said the captors were treating them "excellently."
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Arabic TV he was "appalled" at abuses by U.S. prison guards in Iraq but ordinary Arabs have reacted with widespread anger after he failed to make a personal apology.
Three Czech journalists held hostage in Iraq say they were moved from place to place by their abductors and handed off to different groups during their captivity.
Arabic language TV network Al-Arabiya has aired what it says is an audio tape from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in which he threatens revenge on America, but offers a truce to European states.
Citing reports by Arabic-language television networks they considered erroneous, U.S. military representatives urged Tuesday that reporting from some news organizations not be taken at face value.
Seven Chinese men were kidnapped Sunday night by gunmen in central Iraq, apparently as they were traveling from the Jordanian border toward Baghdad, China's official state news agency, Xinhua, reported early Monday.
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