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  Top aide of Libya's Gadhafi arrested in Egypt

  Egyptian security forces arrested a close aide of ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday following a siege at his Cairo home, a security official and witnesses said.

• Libya's militarized youth feed into economic woes

  Libya's militarized youth feed into economic woes

  More than 18 months since the end of Libya's civil war, the most attractive job for many of the young is still to join a militia. In fact, just under a tenth of Libya's labor force may be working as gunmen.

• Middle East in turmoil 10 years after Iraq invasion that officials said would bring peace

  Middle East in turmoil 10 years after Iraq invasion that officials said would bring peace

  Ten years later, the era that the U.S.-led invasion ushered in looks anything but simple. After tens of thousands of deaths, not just of Americans, but also of Iraqis – many, if not most, at the hands of other Iraqis – that country is still in turmoil. American troops are gone and a democratically elected government rules. But bombings and massacres continue, and the country remains mired in sectarian feuding. Elsewhere, conflict reigns – in some cases, coincidentally, with anniversaries that fall also around this weekend.

• Iraq, 10 years later: Peace, freedom still elusive in Mideast

  Iraq, 10 years later: Peace, freedom still elusive in Mideast

  CAIRO -- President George W. Bush kept it simple in his short television address the evening of March 19, 2003: U.S. forces had begun their campaign to unseat Saddam Hussein, he said. The goals, he outlined in his first sentence, were straightforward: "to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger." Some 522 words later he promised the result: "We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail."

• As Romney, Obama debate foreign policy, few see easy answers in Middle East

  As Romney, Obama debate foreign policy, few see easy answers in Middle East

  President Barack Obama’s handling of the so-called Arab Spring is likely to crop up when he debates foreign policy Monday night with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But what the United States could have done differently as longtime allies were knocked from power in one country after another is far from clear, foreign policy analysts say.