IRAN has allowed IAEA inspectors into the plants from which they recently moved centrifuges. Iran also unveiled a 120 mile cruise missile and began a trial for the Iranian alleged to have assassinated one of their top nuclear scientist.
LIBYAN rebels now control 80% of the capitol of Tripoli, but face heavy resistance in some parts of the city despite having taken control of Qaddafi's primary compound. Two of his sons are still on the loose and COL Qaddafi's whereabouts are a matter of speculation. Venezuela's Chavez has renewed their oaths of loyalty to the dictator. Turkey re-iterated their suppport for the rebels and NATO, from Benghazi, Libya. The Arab League, the Palestinian Authority and Morocco also confirmed their support of the opposition. Morocco's state-run MAP news agency said Foreign Minister Taib Fass Fihri will travel Tuesday to Benghazi.
The YEMENI President has recovered to a point that he is considering a return to his own country from Saudia Arabia, while the Yemeni Prime Minister died of wounds sustained on the Mosque in the capital.
SYRIAN opposition leaders have formed a council while the Assad government has continued its attacks on its people and Ambassador Ford has again traveled to the protests, which previously angered the Assad government.
TURKEY says it has killed 90 to 100 Kurds in Iraq.
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Government aides say Mr. Megawar could return to Yemen as soon as Tuesday. He was wounded in June when opposition fighters mortared the mosque in the government compound in Sana'a. President Ali Abdullah Saleh also was wounded in the blast and is being treated in Saudi Arabia.
A number of Yemeni officials who were hurt in the attack sought treatment in the neighboring country.
On Monday, the speaker of the Yemeni parliament's upper house died from his injuries while in Saudi Arabia. Shura Council leader Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani was the first senior political official to succumb to his injuries.
Yemen security forces have been battling Al Qaeda terrorists and other opposition elements who have made weekly calls for his President Saleh's ouster, along with President Obama's demand for his abdication.
Government officials say at least five suspected militants were killed late Monday when security forces launched airstrikes over the southern Abyan province.
LIBYA: Rebel fighters have seized Moammar Gadhafi's compound in the capital, Tripoli, and are celebrating what they consider a major victory over the Libyan leader and his loyalist troops.
The rebel fighters fought their way into Mr. Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound Tuesday despite heavy gunfire from pro-Gadhafi forces. Hundreds of rebels could be seen firing their weapons in the air in celebration. Others waved flags and tore down posters of Mr. Gadhafi.
Black smoke filled the skyline while gunfire and explosions continued around the compound and several other parts of the city.
It was not clear if Mr. Gadhafi or members of his inner circle were in the compound at the time, or the city of Tripoli. U.S. officials in Washington said Tuesday they believe Mr. Gadhafi was still in Libya.
In New York, Libya's Deputy U.N. Ambassador, Ibrahim Dabbashi, told reporters he expects Tripoli to be completely liberated within the next 72 hours.
EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton said Tuesday the rebels' political leader, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, told her they have control of 80 percent of the Libyan capital.
Meanwhile, Libyan rebels say they also have taken control of the eastern oil port of Ras Lanuf Tuesday. The major oil port is east on the road to Mr. Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte.
A resident of Benghazi told VOA that residents of the rebel-stronghold were honking their horns and waving flags out of their cars in celebration. He said he expected many more people to celebrate after Muslims broke their daily Ramadan fast in the evening.
A NATO spokeswoman, Oana Lungescu, told reporters in Brussels that NATO's mission in Libya is not over, and that it will continue military operations until all attacks and threats of attacks against civilians have stopped.
NATO military spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie added that NATO forces are not specifically targeting Mr. Gadhafi, but that the alliance will strike “wherever is necessary” in Libya to protect civilians.
Mr. Gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown. But his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, defiantly appeared in the city late Monday saying his father was still in Tripoli and that his government was still in control.
The rebels earlier claimed to have arrested Seif al-Islam, but he spoke to foreign journalists at the Gadhafi-controlled Rixos Hotel, then led a convoy of vehicles through loyalist areas, where television footage showed him pumping his fists in the air as supporters cheered him on.
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday disputed reports that it had earlier confirmed Seif al-Islam's detention, saying the court never received official word from the opposition Transitional National Council.
Senior rebel sources also said another of Mr. Gadhafi's sons – Mohammed – escaped house arrest Monday. A third son apparently is still in detention.
Opposition council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Mr. Gadhafi will receive a fair trial if captured, and that the “real moment of victory” will be when he is taken into custody.
Jalil acknowledged that the rebels have yet to establish full control in Tripoli, where forces loyal to Mr. Gadhafi have battled rebels in scattered pockets.
The International Organization for Migration said Tuesday the fighting in Tripoli has forced it to delay docking a ship to begin evacuating stranded migrants. The group said the ship, which can carry 300 people, will remain off shore until the security situation improves.
In addition to parts of Tripoli, pro-government forces also control at least two major cities affiliated with his tribe – Sabha, to the south, and Sirte, some 450 kilometers east of the capital along the coast. NATO says government forces fired three Scud missiles toward the city of Misrata, but no injuries were reported.
The rebels broke through Tripoli's outer defenses Sunday and reached the city's central Green Square, where thousands celebrated the opposition's arrival and tore down posters of Mr. Gadhafi. Until recently, the government had used the area for mass demonstrations in support of Mr. Gadhafi.
The rebel troops moved into central Tripoli with little resistance after capturing a key military base run by the government's elite Khamis Brigade and commanded by another of Mr. Gadhafi's sons.
Turkey's foreign minister says NATO will continue its military operations in Libya until security is fully restored. The vow comes as fighting rages in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and as world leaders press Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down.
Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters Tuesday in the rebel stronghold, Benghazi, that frozen Libyan assets should be released to the Libyan people, who urgently need the resources. He reiterated Turkey's support for the rebel opposition Transitional National Council, as rebels continued fighting for control of Mr. Gadhafi's stronghold, Tripoli. The Arab League, the Palestinian Authority and Morocco also confirmed their support of the opposition. Morocco's state-run MAP news agency said Foreign Minister Taib Fass Fihri will travel Tuesday to Benghazi.
TURKEY: Turkey's military says it has killed an estimated 90 to 100 Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq since launching airstrikes and artillery attacks last week.
The military said in a statement Tuesday that Turkish warplanes have struck 132 targets during the campaign, and that another 80 rebels have been wounded. It also said the air and ground operations will continue.
The casualty figures have not been verified, and local authorities say seven people have been killed in the strikes.
The air raids follow a surge in attacks by Kurdistan Workers' Party rebels against the Turkish military.
Ankara launched the operation last week after PKK rebels ambushed a military convoy in Turkey, killing at least eight Turkish soldiers near the border with Iraq.
Turkey, the United States and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist group.
Turkey has promised a renewed crackdown on the rebels, who have waged a campaign for autonomy in the country's largely Kurdish southeast since 1984. The conflict has killed more than 40,000 people.
Since calling off a cease-fire in February, the PKK has adopted what it calls an “active defense” stance, which allows its fighters to defend themselves if they feel threatened.
IRAN: An Iranian news agency is reporting that a top U.N. nuclear official visited Iran's normally restricted atomic sites last week.
The Fars news agency quotes Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, as saying the head of the IAEA's safeguards division, Herman Nackaerts, spent five days in Iran last week.
Soltanieh said Nackaerts and his delegation visited the Bushehr nuclear plant, enrichment facilities in Fordo and Natanz, nuclear sites in Isfahan, and the Arak heavy water research facility.
Soltanieh said the group was allowed to visit research sites for advanced centrifuges, and that there were talks on how to expand cooperation with the IAEA.
Iran has said it is prepared to take steps to resolve its nuclear dispute with Western powers, in return for reciprocal steps from the international community.
The IAEA has said Iran did not cooperate with its recent probe of Western allegations that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Western nations have imposed a series of economic and political sanctions on Iran to pressure it to stop enriching uranium, a process that can make weapons-grade material if done at a very high level.
Iran has unveiled a series of new weapons and military equipment, including a cruise missile that it says has a range of 200 kilometers.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the development of the Iranian-made cruise missile on Tuesday. State-run media reports say he also unveiled a torpedo system that carries a 220-kilogram warhead and a marine engine that will be used by naval forces.
State reports say the cruise missile is called “Qader” — or “able” — in Farsi. It is described as having “high destructive power” that can be used against warships or “enemy coastal targets.”
Iran periodically makes announcements about what it says are advances in its domestically-built military equipment. In July, Tehran said it had successfully test-fired two missiles with a range of 1,900 kilometers.
In a separate development, the trial has begun for an Iranian man who is accused of having a role in the 2010 murder of a top nuclear scientist.
State-run media reports say the trial began on Tuesday for Majid Jamali-Fashi. He is described as a key suspect in the bombing that killed Massoud Ali Mohammadi.
Iran's foreign ministry blamed the killing on Israel, the U.S. and what it called “their mercenaries in Iran.” The attack was one of several against nuclear scientists.
SYRIA: Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have formed a “national council” that they say will coordinate efforts to oust the embattled leader.
Activists meeting in Turkey announced the group's formation on Tuesday, but they provided few details on the group's make-up.
Meanwhile, U.S. ambassador Robert Ford has made a surprise visit to the Syrian town of Jassem, where security forces have carried out several deadly crackdowns on dissent.
Ford traveled to the town in the Dara'a region on Tuesday.
The visit comes a month after Ford and French ambassador Eric Chevallier angered Syrian officials by visiting the flashpoint city of Hama. The move prompted the Syrian government to impose travel restrictions on the two envoys.
The Associated Press says Ford received permission from Syria to make Tuesday's trip.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.N. Human Rights Council approved a resolution that calls for an investigation into possible rights violations committed by Syrian security forces. The council's action comes one day after witnesses and rights groups said Syrian forces killed eight people as hundreds of protesters rallied against President Assad.
The witnesses said several hundred people converged on the main square in the central city of Homs on Monday when a U.N. humanitarian team visited the town. Pro-government troops fired on the protesters, many of whom had shouted “Gadhafi is gone; now it is your turn, Bashar!” Six people were reported killed.
Two more people were killed on Monday in anti-government protests in other cities.
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