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The article informs that the U.S. has deployed forces to enhance security and evacuate personnel from the embassy in Haiti amidst escalating gang violence. Topic include U.S. Southern Command conducted operations to reinforce embassy security in Port-au-Prince, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussing strategies with Caribbean officials, including the possibility of deploying a multinational security force to address the crisis.

The article looks at protests in Iran following the Saudi Arabian government's execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Protestors set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, Iran after Sheikh Nimr, a critic of the Saudi royal family, was killed in a mass execution on charges related to terrorism. According to the authors, the protests reflect larger conflicts between Saudi Arabia's Sunni monarchy and Iran's Shiite majority. Topics include terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and responses to the executions in the press and social media.

The article discusses a report released on January 15, 2014 by the U.S. Senate intelligence committee on the September 2012 attack by militants against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four people including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The report cited shortcomings on the part of the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, and concluded the assault could probably have been prevented.

The article focuses on the assault of the British Embassy compound in Iran by Iranian students on November 29, 2011. It suggests the attack was related to increased tension between supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The United Nations Security Council called in Iranian authorities to fully respect their international obligations, while U.S. President Barack Obama voiced concern on the attack.

The article reports on Nadim Injaz of Ramallah, West Bank who demanded for an asylum at the Turkey's embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel after being shot and wounded by the embassy's security guards. It notes that Injaz did the same thing inside the British embassy in Israel four years ago and threatened people at the embassy with a toy gun. It mentions a report from "Huriyyet" that a Turkish Foreign Ministry official was amazed at the deranged man for his ease in seizing the embassy.

The article discusses an annual anti-American demonstration in Iran commemorating the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran and Iranians use of the event as an opportunity to protest Iran's diplomatic discussions with the U.S.

The article reports on Iran's commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the the American Embassy takeover in Tehran, Iran. It mentions that the significant day is also called the National Day of Fighting Against Global Arrogance, emphasizing that Iran will never build relations with the U.S. until it apologizes for its mistakes. It states the involvement of hostage taker Abbas Abdi to the takeover of the embassy, which led to a 444-day standoff.

The article discusses a September 13, 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, and suggests Iran may have been involved in planning the assault.

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- For more than three decades, David M. Roeder has watched as successive American presidents have struggled to engage Iran and, in his view, completely failed to hold it accountable. Now 72 and a retired Air Force colonel, Mr. Roeder was among the 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days after Iranian radicals seized the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979, an event that he believes established Iran's ability to get away with bad behavior ever since. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author comments on the assault outside the British embassy in Iran which were caused by basij militia in November 2011.

The article focuses on the attack on the French and U.S. embassies in Damascus on July 11, 2011 ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad which is discussed in the editorial of the newspaper "Al Hayat." It says that author Randa Takieddin contends that the attack was initiated after a French ambassador visited Hama, which is a stronghold of opposition to Assad. It adds that Takieddin reflects on how the French president Nicholas Sarkozy allow the international isolation of his friend Assad.

WASHINGTON -- Yemen's political crisis deepened on Sunday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh once again and at the last minute scuttled an agreement that he step down, and hundreds of his armed supporters blockaded an embassy, trapping American, European and Arab diplomats for hours. Officials of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the regional group that has been acting as an arbitrator between Mr. Saleh and the Yemeni opposition, announced that they would suspend the proposal, under which Mr. Saleh would receive immunity and step down within 30 days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the move of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to lay the first foundation stone of what will become a Palestinian embassy in Brazil, the most important Latin American country to recognize a sovereign Palestinian state.

The article focuses on a Palestinian man's attempt to take hostages at the Turkish embassy building in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 17, 2010 and the arrest of suspect Nadim Injaz who is from the town of Ramallah in West Bank.

The article states that a Palestinian man, Nadim Injaz, is accused of attacking the Turkish embassy building in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 17, 2010. Injaz is from Ramallah, West Bank and was arrested by the Israeli authorities for trying to take hostages during his demand for asylum. Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency or Sherut ha-bitahon ha-kelali, the Palestinian National Authority, and Injaz's admiration for Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are noted.

Al Qaeda is planning an attack in Denmark, the head of the Danish security police said. Two weeks ago, Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark's embassy in Pakistan that killed six people and wounded 20. Al Qaeda called the attack on Denmark's embassy revenge for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on a rising conciliatory voice about the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 in Tehran, Iran. Rallies are conducted every year in the country on November 5 to mark the anniversary of the takeover. But the 2006 anniversary heard a friendly voice from Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, one of the hostage takers. Now with a quest for peace, Asgharzadeh opposes President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's confrontational politics. He is ready to apologize for the incident if it would ease tensions.

This article reports that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is expected to try a second time today to break the Democrats' weeks-long filibuster, with Senate Democrats and the White House continuing their weeklong stare-down over President George W. Bush's nomination of John Bolton to be U.N. ambassador. While at presstime a final decision had not been made, a GOP aide close to the issue acknowledged that a vote today is likely, saying, it is "headed that way." Democrats late Wednesday were still in position to keep Frist from getting the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster, but Frist has come under increasing pressure from the White House and other Republicans to force the issue.

Reports that two American soldiers arrested by the Colombian police for arms smuggling were handed over to the United States Embassy on May 5, 2005 in Colombia.

MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - An attack Monday on the Russian Embassy in Warsaw by Polish nationalists was unprecedented in its scale, Russian Embassy spokesperson Valeria Perzhinskaya said on the Voice of Russia radio on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WARSAW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - Polish Foreign Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz on Tuesday described the attack on the Russian embassy in Warsaw as an outrage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that the takeover of the Japanese ambassador's residence by Marxist guerrillas in Lima, Peru, during December 1996, is a sign of social and political unrest in that nation. Claims that Peru has no solution to conform rebels into society once the civil war ends; Establishment of the Marxist guerrilla organization; What incident has shown proof of the group's resilience.

Reports that on March 18, 1997, Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan, Masahiko Komura, met with President Alberto Fujimori and members of a commission mediating talks with leftist rebels holding 72 Japanese hostages in Lima, Peru. Places that Masahiko will visit during his Latin tour; Rumors of the construction of one or more tunnels to the Japanese Ambassador's residence where the hostages are being held.