100 Muslim extremists freed in Yemen
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A hundred jailed Muslim extremists, including some who allegedly fought for al-Qaida in Iraq, were released by authorities, a Yemeni security official said.
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Authorities on Saturday released 55 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who had spent up to 20 years in jail, a human rights group said.
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Yemeni tribesmen released four French  tourists on Monday who they had held hostage for more than two  weeks, government officials said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israel freed more than 250 Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas Islamists took over the Gaza Strip last month.
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Yemen's security forces have arrested a   man they said was a senior al Qaeda militant who was also a   bodyguard for an opposition candidate in Wednesday's election,   President Ali Abdullah Saleh said.
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A key figure in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 is freed by Yemen after swearing loyalty to the president.
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Ten Saudis returned home on Saturday from detention in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay where al Qaeda militants are held, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.
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Saudi Arabia announces the arrest of 136 suspected militants  - including a potential suicide bomber.
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A Pakistani militant says he carried out a string of attacks which killed at least 100 Shia Muslims.
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Yemen said on Sunday it had agreed with the United States to take back most of the remaining Yemeni inmates held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
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A Yemeni-American al Qaeda militant, thought to be a key figure in the fatal bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in 2000, is back behind bars after a mass jail breakout last year, Yemen's interior minister said.
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Militants who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage in a northwestern town on Monday began freeing them after security forces surrounding the school withdrew, a witness said.
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Ten Guantanamo Bay inmates have been freed and returned home to Saudi Arabia, US and Saudi officials say.
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Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including three Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
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Egypt has released from prison in recent days 700 members of the al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, an Islamist group that fought the government in the 1990s but which has since renounced violence, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Sixteen Saudi prisoners arrive in Riyadh after being released from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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Two men convicted of trying to kill the former U.S. ambassador to Yemen were ordered released by an appeals court on Monday.