Our weekly review of the Middle East looks at Israeli settlers' burgeoning tourism in the West Bank, al Qaeda's growing clout in Yemen, and a plot to ensure Iraq's mobile phones don't work well.
A probe into the 2002 killing of 11 French engineers in Karachi is focusing on France's failure to pay a commission for the sale of submarines to Pakistan, according to a lawyer for the victims' families.
Mali's army has attacked an al Qaeda base near the Algerian border, killing several militants, according to security sources. The operation was believed to be the first attack by Malian troops against Islamist militants in the country's north.
Yemeni authorities have arrested a Saudi national described as the financier of al Qaeda's operations in Yemen and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, a security source said on Sunday.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has said the US intelligence agency believes elusive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, adding that sources on the ground were providing regular reports on al Qaeda targets.
The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial has pleaded not guilty of conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani had been held since 2006 at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil has arrived in New York to face terrorism charges for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Obama's awaited first visit to the Middle East prompts threats from Al Qaeda. We discuss what can be expected of Obama'a speech in Cairo and whether these threats will impact on this tour.
Obama's awaited first visit to the Middle East prompts threats from Al Qaeda. We discuss what can be expected of Obama'a speech in Cairo and whether these threats will impact on this tour.
A North African al Qaeda cell released a communiqué stating that it had carried out its threat of killing British hostage Edwen Dyer, who had been kidnapped in Niger. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the act "barbaric".
