Mogadishu: Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted parts of northern Mogadishu on Tuesday and a local rights group said the Somali capital's heaviest fighting for months had killed 113 civilians.
Manama: The fans of Tunisia's most popular soccer club are demanding an apology from an imam who used his Friday mosque to curse their team.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, it has been revealed.
Hundreds of Pakistani commandos were dropped by helicopter into a mountainous Taleban stronghold in the Swat district yesterday as the Army stepped up its campaign to root out the militants’ top commanders.
Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visits the United States on May 26-27 to meet US President Barack Obama, Egypt’s state-run news agency reported on Tuesday.
A Palestinian cleric commandeered the microphone and the podium at an interfaith meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Jerusalem on Monday in order to deliver a tirade against Israel.
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A new fatwa published in Egypt determines that the source of all the existing pigs in the world is Jews, who were cursed by Allah. The new edict was issued by Sheikh Ali Osman from the Egyptian Waqf ministry.
A Car Bomb Explodes in Front of the Virgin Mary Church in Cairo. Egypt’s Health Minister Determined to Call the Army to Kill Pigs and the Livelihood of Christian Copts Inciting Hatred and Violence on the Rise against Egypt’s Christian as False Fear of H1N1 Intensifies If this is Not Islamic Terrorism what would it be called?
Not only have Egypt's ulema "condoned Obama's decision to visit Cairo next month and to address the Arab and Muslim world from that city,