The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a US army mess tent the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported today.

The armed uprising against Israel was a mistake and should end, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said today, speaking publicly for the first time about a long-held view.

MUSLIMS worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer said as Middle East media and officials registered their horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school.

A STATEMENT issued in the name of al-Qaida has warned European states that they have only two weeks to withdraw their troops from Iraq or else face the consequences.

The Lebanese editor of the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has been sentenced in absentia to one year in jail for falsely reporting that Lebanon’s president was the target of an attempted assassination, judicial officials said in Beirut.

Egypt has released a leader of the militant group responsible for the assassination of former president Anwar Sadat after nearly 22 years in jail.

TWO Arab-language newspapers placed Saddam Hussein and his son Qusay in Baghdad last week on the day US tanks drove to the heart of the capital and Iraqis toppled a massive statue, symbolically ending his 24-year rule.

OSAMA BIN LADEN has issued a statement urging Muslims to bury their differences and unite to fight the “external enemy”.

A senior Yemeni official today said terrorism cannot be completely ruled out in the explosion of a French supertanker.

Saudi Arabia has given foreign oil firms such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group and ExxonMobil Corp until Nov 1 to respond "positively" to a final offer made by Riyadh over three large gas projects, or risk losing the deal, Asharq Al-Awsat daily reported citing Saudi sources.

A Saudi newspaper has claimed Osama bin Laden's eldest son has taken over command of al-Qaida.

One of Osama bin Laden’s wives believes the world’s most wanted man is still alive and would never abandon his base in Afghanistan.

A suspect on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, has left Iran on the advice of its government.