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Many had now been forced away from the main route and were heading west via other routes. The next major gathering was at the junction of Valiasr Street and Taleghani Street, where young men were urging thousands of still tentative protesters to join the main crowd of tens of thousands...
Although the international community occasionally protests Gaza's ongoing tragedy, so far no real pressure has been put on Israel to loosen its stranglehold. A senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government recently confided to a U.N. colleague that Israel's goal for Gaza was "no...
The only flicker of hope right now for a lifting of Israel's siege of Gaza is if Israel secures the return of Sergeant Gilad Shalit, who has been in Hamas captivity in Gaza since being snatched from the Israeli side of the boundary in the summer of 2006. Through...
After last winter's war, Hamas has been able to use its Egyptian tunnel network to rearm itself with rockets, but that subterranean supply route may soon stop. Backed by U.S. funding and expertise, the Egyptians are pressing ahead with controversial plans to close off smugglers' burrows into Gaza by...
Meanwhile, analysts say Yemen has been slow to confront the al-Qaeda threat with the gusto that the U.S. has been pushing for, in large part because going after the Islamist group hasn't always been in the government's best interests. Indeed, some experts say that al-Qaeda seeks...