Islamic Middle East Blog

BBC Middle East

• November 21st 2008
  Iraqis protest against troop deal
  Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.
• November 21st 2008
  Security increase in tense Hebron
  Israel increases security in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a Jewish pilgrimage there by an expected 20,000 people.
• November 21st 2008
  Shoot-out in north Lebanon city
  One person is killed and three are wounded in a shoot-out in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security forces say.
• November 20th 2008
  Security draws Iraqi doctors home
  Improved security in Iraq has led to 800 doctors returning so far this year, a senior health ministry official says.
• November 18th 2008
  Iraq leader defends US troop deal
  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki defends a deal on the presence of US forces in Iraq, saying it preserves Iraqi sovereignty.
• November 21st 2008
  Gaza activists 'on hunger strike'
  Three human rights activists detained with Palestinian fishermen off Gaza by Israel say they have gone on hunger strike.
• November 21st 2008
  US global dominance 'to wane'
  US dominance is likely to weaken by 2025 as India and China grow stronger, a new Washington intelligence report says.
• November 21st 2008
  Lockerbie families claim victory
  The families of US victims of the 1988 Lockerbie Pan Am bombing claim victory in their quest for justice.
• November 20th 2008
  US convicts Syrian arms dealer
  A Syrian-born arms dealer is convicted by a US court of conspiring to sell weapons to left-wing Colombian rebels.
• November 20th 2008
  Somalia 'to become pirate magnet'
  Somalia must be helped by the international community to stop it becoming a "magnet for pirates," a senior Egyptian official has said.