Forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday struck back at rebels following a bombing that killed several key members of the embattled leader's inner circle. Assad – whose grip on power in increasingly tenuous – dropped out of public view following Wednesday's bombing. While the Syrian president does not appear in public often,
The Hizbullah terror organization on Thursday denied involvement in this week's bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria that left at least five Israelis dead and dozens more wounded. Israeli officials have vowed to the avenge their dead saying they plan to "settle the account," while Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pointedly accused Iran and
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is being lambasted for pointing out that Huma Abedin, a top aide of Sec. of State Clinton, has familial ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement. Even members of her own party are attacking her for her statement about Abedin. The Republican onslaught against Bachmann began with Sen. John McCain’s
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the media on Thursday, condemning Wednesday’s terror attack against Israelis in Bulgaria, and once again blaming Hizbullah and Iran for the attack. {youtube}fxlqpoAvXMg&feature=player_embedded{/youtube} “Yesterday's attack in Bulgaria was perpetrated by Hizbullah, Iran's leading terrorist proxy,” said Netanyahu. “This attack was part of a global campaign of terror carried out
The leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement which rules the Gaza Strip, met new Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi on Thursday and hailed Mursi’s election as the start of a “new era” for Egypt and the Palestinians. It was Khaled Meshaal’s first visit to Egypt since Mursi won the country’s first free leadership vote.
Michele Bachmann, former Republican presidential contender and representative of Minnesota's 6th congressional district, challenged President Barack Obama's record on Israel during her keynote address at the 7th annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) national summit in Washington, DC. Her address took place on Tuesday evening, July 17th at the organization's "Night to Honor Israel" program.
King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Wednesday that the situation in Syria is spinning out of control and in a worst case scenario al-Qaeda could obtain some of the regime’s chemical weapons. “Our information is that there is a presence of al-Qaeda in certain regions inside Syria, and has been there for a while,”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have disappeared from Damascus after his top security staff was killed in a suicide bombing. There has been no statement from the president, nor any sign of him since the attack Wednesday on the central government headquarters. Clashes erupted Thursday near government headquarters in Damascus as opposition forces
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met Egypt's newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in Cairo on Wednesday. The Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported that Abbas is in Cairo for two days, coinciding with a trip to the country by Hamas head Khaled Mashaal. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi is
On July 6, after much speculation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) narrowly rejected a proposal to divest its portfolio from companies that supply equipment to Israel, which, it alleges, enforce Israeli control in the “occupied territories.” What was largely overlooked, however, was that the at the end of their biennial national General Assembly in Pittsburgh,
