<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Arabic Language: News &amp; Videos about Arabic Language - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Arabic_Language</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Arabic Language from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:51:38 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Arabic Language: News &amp; Videos about Arabic Language - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/US/08/20/iran.americans/tztop.sarah.shourd.mn.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Arabic_Language</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Arabic Language from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Families plead for U.S. hikers held in Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/20/iran.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/20/iran.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The families of three American hikers detained by Iran said Thursday they don't know anything about their whereabouts or how they are after nearly three weeks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran confirms U.S. hikers arrested for 'illegal entry'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/04/iran.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/04/iran.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran confirmed Tuesday the arrest of three American hikers who crossed into the country from neighboring Iraq and said they have been charged with "illegal entry," a semi-official news agency reported.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kissing a cleft lip goodbye: Adnan heals</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/adnan.journey.cleft.lip/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/adnan.journey.cleft.lip/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>"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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>2 American Journalists Missing in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848504,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848504,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Two American journalists vacationing in Lebanon have not been heard from since Oct. 1 and are believed missing, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rocking the Casbah</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/22/smallbusiness/rocking_casbah_morocco.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/22/smallbusiness/rocking_casbah_morocco.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>It's slow progress at best, strolling through the Fez medina with David Kellar and Brian Smith.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Whistleblower faults FBI staffing, know-how at House hearing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/21/fbi.whistleblower/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/21/fbi.whistleblower/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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. </description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 02:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Syria, Israel reportedly in indirect talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/24/syria.israel/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/24/syria.israel/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arabic TV channels face BBC rival</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/11/bbc.arabic/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/11/bbc.arabic/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The BBC has launched an Arabic-language television news channel in a bid to challenge Al-Jazeera and other popular Middle East TV news outlets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New message from bin Laden on the way, al Qaeda says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/26/bin.laden.message/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/26/bin.laden.message/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Al Qaeda's TV production unit promised on Monday a new message from Osama bin Laden would be made public soon.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Purported new bin Laden audio airs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/22/bin.laden.tape/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/22/bin.laden.tape/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New York public school accused of radical Islamist agenda</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/04/arabic.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/04/arabic.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Padilla Convicted of Supporting Terror</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1653551,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1653551,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Jose Padilla was convicted with two co-defendants charged with supporting al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ID cards of missing soldiers shown on insurgent Web site</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/04/missing.soldiers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/04/missing.soldiers/index.html</guid><description>A Sunni insurgent group on Monday posted video of the military identification cards of two missing American soldiers in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saudis say they've busted massive terror plot </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/27/saudi.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/27/saudi.arrests/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nobel-winning Egyptian writer dies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/30/egypt.mahfouz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/30/egypt.mahfouz/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah rockets pound northern Israel</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/06/mideast.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/06/mideast.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al Qaeda No. 2 mourns al-Zarqawi</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/23/zawahiri.video/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/23/zawahiri.video/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al Qaeda deputy hunted in Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/22/al.zawahiri/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/22/al.zawahiri/index.html</guid><description>Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounced al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri on Thursday as the "cause of destruction" in his country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan president calls for arrest of al Qaeda No. 2</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/21/al.zawahiri/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/21/al.zawahiri/index.html</guid><description>A new video message from the No. 2 figure in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was posted on Islamic Web sites Wednesday evening.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Struggle for gay rights in the Middle East</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/ime.gorani/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/ime.gorani/index.html</guid><description>We were filming an interview on a Beirut street with Youssef, a 21-year-old Lebanese man from a conservative Shia family.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alleged bin Laden tape: Moussaoui not part of 9/11</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/23/binladen.tape/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/23/binladen.tape/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 21:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Arabic search engine may challenge Google, Yahoo</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/25/technology/arabsearch_reut0425/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/25/technology/arabsearch_reut0425/index.htm</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Roommate: Moussaoui saw jihad as way to paradise</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/21/moussaoui.trial/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/21/moussaoui.trial/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How a 9/11 conspirator gave himself away</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/03/moussaoui.school/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/03/moussaoui.school/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Threats in new German hostage tape</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.german.hostages/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.german.hostages/index.html</guid><description>Iraqi insurgents have released a second videotape showing two kidnapped German engineers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mother to captors: 'Vengeance ... will not create justice'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/19/iraq.journalist/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/19/iraq.journalist/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Newspaper making 'strenuous efforts' to free reporter</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/18/iraq.journalist/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/18/iraq.journalist/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jazeera fury over 'U.S. bomb' memo</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/24/jazeera.protest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/24/jazeera.protest/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BBC to launch Arabic TV channel</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/25/bbc.arabic/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/25/bbc.arabic/index.html</guid><description>The BBC World Service has announced it is to set up a new Arabic television channel, in what it describes as its "biggest transformation in 70 years."</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al-Zawahiri letter under scrutiny</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/19/take.letter/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/19/take.letter/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'UK bomber' on Al Jazeera tape</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/01/london.claim/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/01/london.claim/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navy believes video shows SEAL's ID, weapon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/afghan.seal.video/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/afghan.seal.video/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nine die in Baghdad mosque bombing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 24 others Friday near a Shiite Muslim mosque in Baghdad, police sources said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>11 die in helicopter crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/21/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/21/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. to beam Arabic-language channel to Europe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/27/alhurra.expansion/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/27/alhurra.expansion/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Officials dispute report Chalabi faces arrest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/22/chalabi/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/22/chalabi/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Battle for Falluja under way</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops have streamed into Falluja, beginning an all-out assault aimed at driving insurgents out of the city.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 05:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Abducted CNN producer released</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/28/producer.abducted/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/28/producer.abducted/index.html</guid><description>CNN producer Riad Ali was released Tuesday, almost 24 hours after he was abducted by armed gunmen, and is now in the custody of Palestinian police.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK in Iraq radio plea for hostage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/britain.hostage/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/britain.hostage/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq violence leaves 40 dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.raid/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.raid/index.html</guid><description>Fighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people across Iraq in weekend violence.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2004 08:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 40 die in Iraq violence </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.blast/index.html</guid><description>Fighting and a suicide bombing killed at least 40  people across Iraq in weekend violence.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Egypt denies paying ransom for diplomat</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.egypt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.egypt/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq hostage video released</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/22/iraq.hostages/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/22/iraq.hostages/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Philippines troops out of Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/19/iraq.philippines/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/19/iraq.philippines/index.html</guid><description>The last Philippine peacekeeping troops have left Iraq, meeting a demand by militants holding a Filipino hostage but defying opposition from its allies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marine in Germany for debriefing, exam</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/09/marine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/09/marine/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Missing Marine at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/08/marine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/08/marine/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 12:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mortar attack kills 5 U.S. troops, 1 Iraqi guardsman</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/08/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/08/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Source: Missing Marine safe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/07/marine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/07/marine/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brother: Captors have released Marine</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/06/marine.utah/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/06/marine.utah/index.html</guid><description>The brother of an American Marine  who had been taken hostage in Iraq asserted Tuesday that his brother, Cpl. Wassef Hassoun, has been freed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marine's brother begs for his release</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/29/missing.marine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/29/missing.marine/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al-Jazeera: Militants kill missing soldier</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Audiotape charges U.S. doesn't want Arab reforms</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/11/zawahiri.tape/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/11/zawahiri.tape/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia: Iraq draft needs hard work</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.main.intl/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.main.intl/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al-Jazeera airs video of 3 Italian hostages</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anger over Bush lack of apology</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/06/bush.arab.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/06/bush.arab.reax/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2004 09:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Czech journalists tell of captivity in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/16/iraq.hostages/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/16/iraq.hostages/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Bin Laden' offers Europe truce</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/binladen.tape0730/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/binladen.tape0730/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. blasts Arabic-language TV networks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/13/coalition.news/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/13/coalition.news/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seven Chinese reported kidnapped in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/11/iraq.missing/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/11/iraq.missing/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>