In a sprawl of plastic refugee shelters and mortar-blasted buildings in Mogadishu, a mud-caked Turkish engineering team monitors the drilling of a new borehole while their armed guards chat lazily under a tree, guns across laps. These government contractors are on the frontline of a huge Turkish development effort in one of the world’s
“We used to hear about the exile of the Palestinians. Now, we’re just like them,” sighed Farhat Mustafa al-Kurdi who fears Syrian refugees will become forgotten victims of his homeland’s conflict. Most of his fellow refugees in Wadi Khaled, just inside northern Lebanon, fled the neighboring flashpoint province of Homs in central Syria.
Israel’s has deployed missiles with nuclear warheads on three submarines purchased from Germany, Der Spiegel reported Sunday. Three more of the Dolphin-class submarines are on order. The magazine claims that Germany knows about Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons, despite formal denials. The Popeye missiles loaded on the subs reportedly can be launched using a
A best-selling author questioning the origins of Islam in a new book has received death threats on the Twitter social networking website. Robert Spencer, director of the website “Jihad Watch,” questioned the source of Islam in a new book, “Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into the Obscure Origins of Islam,” published by ISI Books.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 84, suffered a heart attack Saturday upon his arrival at Tora Prison. The incident occurred after he was told he was to spend the rest of his life at the prison, according to the head of Egypt's prison service. Medical staff at the prison treated Mubarak and stabilized
IAF aircraft struck three weapons manufacturing sites in central Gaza on Saturday night, as well as two terror tunnels, one in northern Gaza and one in the south. According to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, direct hits at the targets were identified. All Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The
Thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday night to protest against controversial verdicts acquitting ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s sons and former security figures. The protesters were joined by Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Mursi, Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, and moderate Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Mursi earlier called on Egyptians
A radio host has been hospitalized after being cut 15 times by an unidentified criminal, after he criticized the Prophet Mohammed, on air, according to a Russian news agency. Sergey Aslanyan, 46, was brought to Moscow’s hospital with numerous non-penetrating knife wounds to the chest, neck and arm. According to the police report,
A Turkish court on Friday formally charged an internationally known pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values, in comments he made on Twitter. According to The Associated Press, the court in Istanbul voted to approve an indictment against Fazil Say, who has played piano with the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Israel
Magdah Fayez Fawzy, 27 years old, and her daughter Jolly, 4 years old, were found slaughtered yesterday in their apartment located in East railway – Luxor (Upper Egypt). The horror was discovered by victim’s husband Haney Assaad Mansour when he returned home yesterday, Friday June 1st at noon. He stated that when he
