The uprising in Egypt that toppled the 31-year regime of former President Hosni Mubarak was supposed to create a new kind of government – one that didn't divide one Egyptian from the next.
The minority Alawite regime of Bashar Assad has brought in helicopter gunships and tanks to combat a citizens’ rebellion, according to eyewitness reports. The BBC quoted a Syrian refugee who had crossed the border into Turkey as saying that Assad’s tanks attacked a village near Jisr al-Shughour Saturday.
Continuing its policy of denying Jerusalem's Jewish heritage the Palestinian Authority publicized the claims of an Arab researcher that the well-known ancient Hebrew psalm, "If I forget three, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill," is not Jewish at all, the Israeli research institute Palestininian Media Watch reports.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas wants to "climb down from the tree" and restart talks with Israel, but can't due to widespread pressure, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
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The presumed head of Al-Qaeda in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, wanted for blowing up the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed in Mogadishu this week, sources said Saturday.
Rape is still being used as a brutal weapon of war in conflicts worldwide including Libya to terrorize populations and often force civilians to flee, a United Nations expert charged on Friday.
The sensitive issue of tackling Muslim extremism in Britain is once being highlighted with the publication by Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday of an updated version of “Prevent Strategy,†a £63million-a-year—now reduced to £46 million—scheme, which was launched in 2007 to prevent the growth of British home-grown terrorism.
Israel Police and Border Guard forces were forced to storm the Temple Mount compound Friday after stones were hurled at the end of afternoon prayers.
Members of the Hizbullah terror organization were planted among the hundreds of Syrian rioters who tried to breach Israel's northern border on "Naksa day," according to documents released by the IDF spokesperson's office this week.