“If it came to war, there would be carnage. The Iranian casualties would be huge but they would be able to inflict severe blows against the US and British. This is a conflict nobody wants, but the rhetoric from Israel is unrelenting.” ...

Fifteen minutes after the attack started, the extremists broke into the compound and began firing into the main building, setting it on fire. At the time, there were three people inside -- Stevens, department official Sean Smith and a regional security officer. ...

Dozens of protesters then scaled the embassy walls, went into the courtyard and took down the U.S. flag from a pole. They brought it back to the crowd outside, which tried to burn it, but failing that, tore it apart. ...

Iraq's fugitive vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi has been sentenced to death in absentia after a court found him guilty of running death squads. ...

Speaking to shocked men sitting outside a coffee house, she said: 'Don't talk behind my back, don't play with my honour. Here is the head of the man who played with my honour.' ...

Most of Egyptian ladies are veiled [with a headscarf] and most of them have experienced sexual harassment. Statistics say that most of the women or girls who have been sexually harassed have been veiled or completely covered up with the niqab. ...

More than 300 bodies, including those of women and children, were found in houses and basement shelters. Many were the victim of execution-style killings, claim opposition activists. ...

Saif al-Islam has been held in Zintan, 170km (130 miles) south-west of Tripoli, since his capture by militiamen last November. The militiamen have demanded Saif al-Islam be tried in Zintan. ...

Western powers are digging deep for excuses to intervene militarily in another conflict-torn Middle East country, as U.S. President Barack Obama warned Monday that the use of chemical weapons by Syria's government would change his "calculus." ...

Mika Yamamoto, who worked for the independent Japan Press news agency was killed Monday during a gun battle in Aleppo. She was reporting on the rebel Free Syrian Army, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. ...