Monday, November 5, 2012

Pax Islamia, November 5, 2012


BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian activist group says a suicide car bomber has killed more than 50 Syrian soldiers and pro-government gunmen.

BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinian supporters and opponents of Syria's regime got swept up in intense fighting in Damascus on Monday while rival rebel groups clashed over control of a border crossing with Turkey, activists said.

The rare infighting among the two groups added news dimensions of chaos to the civil war and heightened fears that if President Bashar Assad falls, the disparate factions battling the regime will turn against each other.

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A series of bomb blasts in Bahrain's capital killed two people Monday, authorities said, a sign that some factions within the opposition may be increasingly turning to violence in the nearly 21-month uprising against the Gulf nation's Western-backed rulers.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says a group of 11 al-Qaida fighters has killed two border guards while trying to cross into Yemen before they themselves were captured.