DAHAB, EGYPT—It all happened in an instant. A stray cat begging for food at a waterfront restaurant scratches a Canadian tourist’s hand. Moments later, the cat is spinning out over the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba in the direction of distant Saudi Arabia.

The militants, led by Tareq al-Dahab, took over Radda one week ago. He is related to Awlaki, whom Washington accused of a main role in the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda and assassinated in a drone strike last year. The capture of the town, about 105 miles ...

Islamist militants took over Radda one week ago, led by Tareq al-Dahab, a relative of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, whom Washington accused of a main role in the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda and assassinated in a drone strike last year. The capture ...

MAZEN Abu Dahab could never have imagined the send-off that he would receive after a sniper's bullet killed him this week on a muddy street in Sakba, a drab suburb east of Damascus. The body of the 33-year-old man, hailed a martyr, was paraded on Saturday ...

The major Red Sea beach resorts of Sharm Al Shaikh, Taba and Dahab all witnessed bloody attacks between 2004 and 2006 which killed a total of 130 people. The attacks were claimed by a previously unknown Islamist group calling itself Al Tawhid Wal Jihad ...

(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, FEBRUARY 3 - Two female American tourists have been kidnapped by a group of armed and masked Bedouins in the city of Dahab, on the south-eastern coast of the Sinai. ANSA has learned from local sources that the two women were part of a ...

Those concerns were underscored when Islamist militants seized the town of Radda last week led by Tareq al-Dahab, a relative of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, whom Washington accused of a main role in the Yemeni branch of al Qaeda and assassinated in a ...

"Two soldiers were killed and several others were wounded in an attack on an army checkpoint by supporters of Tarek al-Dahab," brother-in-law of the Yemeni-American extremist Anwar al-Awlaqi, who was killed in a US air strike last September ...

Major General Ismail Etman, 60, was "exempted from service and replaced by Major General Ahmed Abu El-Dahab, the director of the artillery division," a defense ministry source said. The decision was announced later by state media. Since the 1973 ...

The raid was led by Tariq al-Dahab, a relative of al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, killed last year in an attack by a CIA drone. Saleh's critics accuse him of exploiting the security situation in the country to cling to power.