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A kidnapped Venezuelan athlete is located 50 hours later and rescued, but it takes five years and a 1,000 terrorists to free an Israeli soldier.

Extremist Iraqi cleric warns that if US forces do not leave by year-end deadline, violence against military would resume at full force.

Arab nationalism/monarchism, Islamism, scapegoating of the West are the pillars upon which the next era in the Middle East will be built.

If Libya is lucky its new government will learn from the mistakes of Iraq. There is already talk of unity of Libya's many tribes.

Assad is so scared by Mubarak's trial that his media have totally ignored it, even though it's most sensational trial in Arab history.

Sectarian undertones compound commercial worries, experts say; called "worst crisis between the two states since the Saddam era"

Activist says Syrians won't repeat mistakes made in neighboring Iraq, where fighting between Sunnis, Shi'ites broke out after the fall of Hussein.

Suicide bomber, car bomb planted outside a governor's house in the central Iraqi city kill at least 21 people and injure more than 30.

Spring has turned to summer in the Middle East and it promises to be a long hot summer of strife