Tunisian authorities have detained the court officer who denounced an art exhibition as offensive to Islam last week and triggered a wave of riots by hardline Islamists, the official TAP news agency said. Mohamed Ali Bouaziz was arrested late Tuesday on charges of disrupting public order, the agency said, quoting a justice ministry official.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spelled out his long term vision for the coming century in his speech to the President's Conference Thursday. In it, he said that militant Islam will be defeated by the end of the century, and that in the intervening decades, the challenge before the free countries is to prevent rogue states
Terrorist organizations in Judea and Samaria have resumed use of an old form of attack – planting bombs on roadsides, then setting them off using mobile phones. The change was revealed in a recent IDF Spokesperson’s Office report. The report showed that after several years in which phone-operated bombs were barely used, the style
Heightened tensions between Egypt’s ruling military and the Muslim Brotherhood have mounted on Thursday, after a delay in announcing the winner of a presidential poll claimed by the Islamists and reported vote-count errors. The delay placed focus on the Brotherhood fears of a “soft coup” by the ruling military, which has already disbanded the
One of the results of the revolution in Egypt,perhaps unforeseen by Egyptians who sought to get rid of Hosni Mubarak's government, was the economic effects of the rebellion. They're all aware of it now, though; according to economists in the U.S. and Europe, Egypt's economy has basically been paralyzed for the past year and a
Despite a declaration of a ceasefire by Hamas on Wednesday night, rockets continued to hit Israeli targets. Five more rockets hit the western Negev early Thursday morning. All the rockets exploded in open areas of the Eshkol Regionl Council, with no damage or injuries reported. On Wednesday, some 70 rockets were fired by Gaza Arab
Egypt’s generals have set political rules that could keep the army in power for years, one of their senior Islamist opponents warned on Wednesday, but the Muslim Brotherhood will not fight back in the way that plunged Algeria into bloody civil war. Saad al-Katatni, speaker of the short-lived democratic parliament dissolved by the ruling
Egypt's electoral commission won't release the results of the country's presidential run-off till at least the weekend, "Saturday or Sunday," and possibly even later, an official announced late Wednesday. The commission said the announcement was postponed due to an investigation into complaints over voting fraud, local media reported. Some 400 complaints were submitted by
Yemeni security forces carried out air strikes in which 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the south of the country on Wednesday and said they foiled a plot to attack embassies. A Yemeni Red Cross worker was also killed in the air raids as he travelled in the south on a mission
The military wing of Hamas said late on Wednesday it had agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel, after three days of bloodshed in and around Gaza. “In response to the Egyptian efforts to try and stop the aggression on our people, we at al-Qassam Brigades and all resistance factions declare our commitment to
