Turkey is deploying troops along its border with Syria after one of its jets was shot down by Syria over the Mediterranean last week, a Turkish official said on Thursday. “I can confirm there are troops being deployed along the border in Hatay province. Turkey is taking precautions after its jet was shot down,”
Egypt’s armed forces chief will keep his post as defense minister in a new cabinet to be formed by President-elect Mohamed Mursi, a member of the military council said. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, 76, who served as defense minister for two decades under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, will keep his post after Egypt’s first
The United States on Wednesday condemned an attack on a pro-government television station in Damascus which killed seven staff members in the latest development of an uprising against the Syrian regime. “We condemn all acts of violence including those targeting pro-regime elements,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, while rebuking President Bashar al-Assad for
NATO on Tuesday firmly backed Turkey saying Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish jet was “unacceptable,: NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the incident saying, "We consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it in the strongest terms…It is another example of the Syrian authorities' disregard for international norms, peace and security,
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had told Israel that it would not be “appropriate” for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta. Egypt notified Israel two months ago that it would be “impossible to hold the annual ceremony because of
Turkey said on Monday that Syrian forces had fired at a second Turkish plane which was searching for an F-4 reconnaissance jet shot down by Syria last week, but the second plane was not brought down. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told a news conference that Turkey would protect itself, within the framework of
Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Mursi has begun to draw up “a list of names” for the new cabinet on Monday which is expected to include ministers who will have the support of his movement’s election allies. The move comes as Mursi supporters, backed by some liberal and secular youth groups, vow to press on with
Announcing Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi the winner of Egypt’s presidential elections was seen by the Islamist group as one of its greatest post-revolution victories, yet the president will assume office with powers much more limited than those granted to occupiers of the same position before the revolution. Many of the powers given to
A British Muslim woman was turned away from a parent’s night at her son’s college because she refused to remove her full face veil. Maroon Rafique, had been invited to attend the parents evening but said she was apprehended by security staff when she entered the Manchester College. She was told that for
Egypt’s President-elect Mohammed Mursi said in an interview with Iran’s Fars news agency on Monday that he was looking to expand ties with Tehran to create a strategic “balance” in the region, as Israeli media expressed almost unanimous concern and warned of a difficult new reality. Fars quoted him as saying he was interested
