Monthly Archives: January 2010

Less than 72 hours of Christmas Eve Massacre in Nagh Hammadi, Upper Egypt, a Coptic woman was killed in Bahgurah.

Residents of a southern Egypt village were furious on Saturday after houses and shops owned by Coptic Christians were burnt as sectarian tensions flared in the wake of a deadly drive-by shooting.

Just over a year after IDF Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip , former OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yom Tov Samia on Sunday predicted that another war with Hamas was practically inevitable and would take place in the near future.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s remarks before today’s Cabinet meeting focused on the recent rocket attacks from Gaza:

KABUL - Rockets fired at a building that will house the US consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat damaged two floors but caused no casualties, an Afghan official said Sunday.

Security forces in Somalia's northern breakaway enclave of Somaliland said on Saturday they had foiled an attack on a mosque in Hargeisa where the imam had spoken out against militant suicide bombings.

A report in the German magazine Der Spiegel over the weekend says that one way Hizbullah has been earning money for its terror activities is by selling drugs in Europe.

A Queens cab driver pleaded not guilty Friday to being part of a thwarted Al Qaeda plot to bomb New York City last year around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed defiance of the threat of new sanctions on his country on Saturday, saying the Islamic Republic will not be deterred from pursuing its nuclear program.

Armed officers stormed a plane at London's Heathrow airport as it was about to depart for Dubai and arrested three men on suspicion of making a bomb threat, police said Saturday.