ISLAMIC leaders will debate Islamophobia when they meet in Senegal this week amid Muslim anger over a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark and a Dutch film perceived as anti-Islamic
A FEMALE suicide bomber blew herself up outside the house of an Iraqi tribal sheikh, killing him and three others today in the restive province of Diyala, an army officer said
ANTI-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said overnight his feared Mehdi Army would defend itself against attack by the US military or secular opponents, despite extending a ceasefire
SENIOR al-Qaeda figure Jaber al-Banna, who has a $US5 million ($5.4 million) US bounty on his head, walked free from an appeal hearing in Yemen overnight after being granted bail on his own recognisance