A Sunni Lebanese militant group linked to al Qaeda has apologized for the civilian casualties of a suicide bombing last month and said its fight was against Iran and its ally Hezbollah, not Shi'ites in general. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades took credit for a February 19 attack on Shi'ite...

A suspected homemade bomb exploded at a tram station in eastern Cairo wounded at least one person on Saturday, Egyptian security officials said. Another homemade bomb was defused at the same station in Heliopolis suburb, the security officials said, according to Agence France-Presse....

At least two Yemeni soldiers and a militant were killed in a clash when militants tried to attack a military compound in southern Yemen on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said on its website. The September 26 website said al Qaeda militants approached the compound in Lawdar town...

  Armed protesters who have seized oil ports in eastern Libya  said on Saturday they had started exporting oil, bypassing the Tripoli government, with their first shipment going to a North Korean-flagged tanker. Officials at state-run National Oil Corp (NOC) confirmed...