Topic - Ramadan

• American Scene

  An unemployed teenager charged Tuesday with firebombing two synagogues is an anti-Semite whose hatred of Jews guided his actions, authorities said.

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  Libyans flee siege in Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte

  Families in pickup trucks stacked with mattresses and jugs of water fled Col. Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte on Tuesday ahead of an expected new push by revolutionary forces to seize the city from die-hard loyalists of the fugitive leader.

• Libyans celebrate soccer win under new flag

  Hundreds of joyful Libyans cheered and fired off celebratory gunshots in Tripoli's main square Saturday after the national soccer team won in its first match since rebels toppled Moammar Gadhafi's regime and forced the longtime leader into hiding.

• Leader warns Arab world West may try to 'confiscate' uprisings

  TEHRAN | Iran's top leader warned the Arab world Wednesday not to allow Western powers and Israel to "confiscate" the region's uprisings for reform in comments that appear to reflect the Islamic republic's unease about their standing in a profoundly altered Middle East and North Africa.

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  Rebels: One Gadhafi son set to surrender

  One of the sons of ousted strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi was negotiating his own surrender, Libyan rebels said Wednesday, while another son issued a defiant message saying that the regime would fight to the death.

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  Syrian security forces carry out raids, arrests

  Syrian security forces searching for anti-government protesters raided houses in central Syria and made arrests, activists and residents said Wednesday.

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  Syrian troops kill 7 on start of Muslim holiday

  Syrian security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, as worshippers poured out of mosques after prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, activists said.

• Briefly: Middle East

  Libyan rebels pledged Tuesday to launch an assault within days on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, the ousted strongman's last major bastion of support, while a top official said the rebels have a "good idea" where Col. Gadhafi is hiding.

• World Briefs

  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb took responsibility Sunday for the attack on a military academy in Algeria that killed at least 18 people, including 16 officers in training.

• Turkey returning confiscated property to minorities

  Turkey's government is returning hundreds of properties confiscated from the country's Christian and Jewish minorities in the past 75 years in a gesture to religious groups who complain of discrimination that also is likely to thwart possible court rulings against the country.

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  GAFFNEY: Questions about David Ramadan in Virginia primary

  Kent Clizbe has a warning for voters in the primary Tuesday to fill the Virginia House of Delegates' newly created 87th District seat in Loudoun County: Caveat emptor - let the buyer or, in this case, the electorate, beware.

• World Briefs

  Relatives of two American men arrested more than two years ago in Iran said Sunday that the news they had received eight-year prison sentences for spying hit them hard, but they remain hopeful the men will eventually be released.

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  Suicide bomber kills 48 in Pakistan mosque

  A suicide bomber struck worshippers during prayers Friday at a mosque close to the Afghan border, killing 48 people in an attack one official said may have been aimed at anti-Taliban elders praying during the holy month of Ramadan.

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  Syrian troops detain dozens; 3 dead in north

  Syrian troops detained dozens of people in a Damascus neighborhood and the coastal city of Latakia in overnight raids as President Bashar Assad's regime tried to forcefully end a five-month uprising, activists said Wednesday.

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  Turkey PM compares Syrian leader to Gadhafi

  Turkey's prime minister compared Syria's president to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday, as Damascus defied international calls to end the crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising.

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