IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that a misstep by Israel in moving to secure Syria's chemical weapons could lead to a wide-scale regional war. Gantz stressed to lawmakers that the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad still has a firm grip on its stores
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi appointed Irrigation Minister Hisham Kandil as Egypt's prime minister-designate on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The report said that critics of Morsi’s Islamist movement questioned his choice of a prime minister who they said lacked the clout to bridge deep political divisions. Kandil’s appointment will allow Morsi to exert greater control
The European Union on Tuesday rejected Israel's request that it categorize Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Cypriot Foreign Minister Gujarat Cossack-Marcolis, who presently holds the EU's rotating presidency, said "there is no consensus on the issue, because Hizbullah also has an active political arm." She added that the matter is open for reconsideration if
An Egyptian actor who appeared on a local candid camera show did not take things well when, as part of the prank, he was told he was being interviewed for an Israeli channel. The actor, Ayman Kandeel, can be seen losing his temper and turning physically violent on the set upon being told the
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Egypt on Monday eased the visa requirements for Gazans under 40 who want to travel to Egypt through the Rafiah border crossing into the Sinai. "We were officially informed by the Egyptian side about a decision to allow any Palestinian under the age of 40 to travel through Rafah with his family without a
Bulgarian news sources have reported a woman aided the terrorist who attacked Israeli tourists at Burgas airport last week. Bulgarian news channel BTV is reporting that the terrorist who murdered five Israelis and a local driver spoke Russian and entered the country with a female accomplice through Romania. The identity of the terrorist,
Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, a prominent figure in Egypt’s Salafi movement and vice president of the Salafi Call—the same sheikh who seeks to punish Muslim apostates, condemns Mother’s Day, and advocates deceiving Israel—has just issued a fatwa, published in the “Voice of the Righteous Salaf,” forbidding Muslim taxi-drivers and bus-drivers from transporting Coptic priests to their
Religious professor at the Luther College in Iowa Robert F. Shedinger has made a controversial claim in a new book, arguing that Jesus Christ was a Muslim. In the beginning of his book, to be released this year, Shedinger asked “Was Jesus a Muslim?” “I will answer with a very qualified yes,” he wrote.
Sinai Peninsula terrorists blew up the Egyptian-Israeli pipeline for the 15th time Sunday, another sign of the area being under the control of a de facto terror state. All of the attacks have taken place since the uprising against ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in early 2011. Since then, the collapsed Egyptian government and
