Monthly Archives: March 2010

Britain has sent back to Egypt some 25,000 ancient artifacts from Britain, some dating as far back as the stone age, Egypt's culture minister said on Thursday.

In wake of east J'lem clashes, PA president again warns of religious war in ME.

Dignitaries from Israel and abroad fly in for Sunday’s rededication.

Two missile ships belonging to the Israeli Navy passed through the Suez Canal sometime during the last few weeks,

This is from Egyptian online magazine al-Youm al-Sabi'u (The Seventh Day), written on 9 February. In the article, high-ranking Egyptian Islamic Sheikh Khalid al-Jundi blasts Shi'ites and Baha'is, and rejects all relations with Israel--the usual stuff you'd expect from a Muslim Sheikh speaking freely in Arabic to his own.

Four Islamist militants who admitted planning "a monstrous bloodbath" with foiled car bomb attacks on U.S. targets in Germany were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to murder.

An Egyptian court accepted an appeal by property tycoon and politician Hesham Talaat Moustafa and ordered a retrial after he was sentenced to death for murdering a Lebanese singer.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday Western powers were trying to widen differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims to divert attention from the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Pakistani security forces killed 30 Taliban fighters on Thursday in a counter-offensive after coming under attack in a volatile tribal area on the Afghan border, military officials said.

Libya has decided to impose a "total" economic embargo on Switzerland, government spokesman Mohammed Baayou said on Wednesday, after Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi declared holy war on Bern.