BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi security forces cut off the main roads leading to the Iraqi capital Baghdad as well as neighborhoods inside the city as part of intensive security measures after two days of violent protests in the city and in Iraq's central and southern provinces, security sources said on Thursday.

An Interior Ministry source anonymously told Xinhua that Baghdad has been isolated completely from the other Iraqi provinces since the curfew declared by the government came into effect at dawn on Thursday. (Iraq-Protest)

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CAIRO -- The Egyptian public prosecution said in a statement on Thursday that it released a number of foreigners who were arrested during recent protests in Egypt in response to requests from their embassies.

"Their embassies vowed to deport them immediately outside the country," said the prosecution's statement, which didn't mention the number of foreigners or their nationalities. (Egypt-Prosecution-Foreigners-Release)

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TRIPOLI -- Forces of Libya's UN-backed government announced on Thursday that two civilians have been killed by indiscriminate shelling in southern Tripoli.

"A woman and her daughter were killed when their home was hit by shelling carried out by Haftar's militias (eastern-based army) in Wali al-Ahd street (southern Tripoli)," the UN-backed government's forces said in a statement. (Libya-Shelling)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the United States should not use oil market for its political ends, Financial Tribune daily reported on Thursday.

The energy industry should remain apolitical to prevent unwanted and unhelpful interference by "hostile regimes" like the administration in Washington, Zanganeh made the remarks in Moscow of Russia on Wednesday. (Iran-Oil-Depoliticization) Enditem

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