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** FILE ** In this April 15, 2011, file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to his supporters, not pictured, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, after returned from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

Yemen president of 33 years quits amid uprising

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 13, 2011, against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria. (Associated Press)

With Arab vote, isolation, pressure piles on Syria

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, file photo, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz arrives at the awards ceremony of the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud International Prize at King Fahd Cultural center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi TV said Saturday morning Oct. 22, 2011, the kingdom's heir to the throne has died abroad after an illness. He was 85 years old. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Saudi heir’s death brings conservative to fore

By Abdullah Al-Shihiri and Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Purported plot on envoy pushes Iranians, Saudis closer to brink

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

UK holds assets over assassination plot

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This 2004 photo provided by the Williamson County Jail shows Manssor Arbabsiar, a U.S. citizen charged in a New York federal court on Oct. 11, 2011, with conspiring to kill Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. (Associated Press/Williamson County Jail via Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

U.K. orders asset freeze over assassination plot

By David Stringer - Associated Press

Protesters carry a Syrian flag during a demonstration against President Bashar Assad in front of the Syrian Embassy in Cairo on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

Arab League unlikely to suspend Syria

By Aya Batrawy and Maggie Michael - Associated Press

** FILE ** British Foreign Secretary William Hague delivers his first foreign policy speech at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)

U.K.: Iran escalating its ties to terrorism

By David Stringer - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, announces on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Washington that two men have been charged in an alleged plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Obama pressed to get tough on Iran for terror plot

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

In this image made from video, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks on Yemen State Television broadcast Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. The TV broadcast showed Saleh talking to unidentified members of the Yemen parliament, railing against the opposition and calling the crisis a "conspiracy" against him. (AP Photo/Yemen State TV)

Yemen president says he wants to leave power

By Ahmed Al-Jaj - Associated Press

Illustration: Terrorist threat by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

GIARDINO: Battle against American terrorists in Yemen isn’t over

By Carrie Giardino - The Washington Times

Underwear-bomb maker believed dead in Yemen strike

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

SHAKOURI: Still no Arab Spring for Saudi women

By Shireen Shakouri - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, May 24, 2011, file photo, Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving opened Friday, June 17, 2011, with female motorists getting behind the wheel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

EDITORIAL: Saudi Arabia denies women the vote

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

King allows women to vote, run in elections

By Abdulla al-Shirhri and Maamoun Youssef ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

Saudi king allows women to vote in local elections

By Abdullah al-Shihri and Maamoun Youssef - Associated Press

Yemen president’s return hikes fear of escalation

By Ahmed al-Haj and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS
A tear in a campaign banner for Sawsan Taqawi, a candidate in Bahrain's special parliamentary elections, show anti-government protesters in Muqsha, Bahrain. The election is being held Saturday to fill 18 seats vacated by Shiite lawmakers protesting the government's response to a spring uprising.

Rulers secure in 1st post-Spring votes

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Yemen protesters storm elite military base; 50 die

By Ahmed al-Haj and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Yemeni forces open fire on protesters; 12 killed

By Ahmed al-Haj - Associated Press