Three Egyptian police officers were killed early Sunday in a high speed chase after “armed criminals” in the Sinai Peninsula. Four other security personnel were injured in the accident when the car flipped over while chasing the group of criminals, according to the Egyptian state news agency, MENA. The “armed criminals,” who were not
A Muslim U.S. soldier turned conscientious objector was jailed for life on Friday after being convicted of plotting to kill troops and their families from a military base. The court had heard that Naser Jason Abdo, 22, planned to attack soldiers and their families from Fort Hood, a sprawling army installation northwest of the
Three American soldiers were killed Friday when a man in Afghan uniform turned his weapon on them, the U.S. military said, in the third so-called green-on-blue attack in less than a week. A spokeswoman said “an individual in an Afghan uniform fired on U.S. Forces-Afghanistan services members in Sangin district of Helmand province. There
It’s priming for a risky showdown with Iran over its suspected nuclear program, concerned about neighboring Syria’s bloody civil war spilling across the border and dealing with terrorists attempting to infiltrate from Egypt’s lawless Sinai Peninsula. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring hundreds of thousands of tourists from flocking to Israel each month.
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The Egyptian army massed troops and carried out arrests on Friday to quell increasingly deadly Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula close to the borders with Gaza and Israel as President Mohammed Mursi headed to the border Rafah crossing. Egypt also temporarily reopened the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, which was closed after
Lebanese singer Yara was taken to a police station by her driver in Algeria after she refused to stop smoking in accordance with the country’s Ramadan laws, the UAE’s Gulf News on Thursday. Yara, a Christian, took out a cigarette and began smoking whilst being driven from Setif, east of the capital Algiers, to
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer said on Friday that the financial system is preparing for an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and for a possible downturn in the economy which may result. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Fischer said, “The primary responsibility of each country is to maintain its security. It is
Israeli sources told Reuters on Friday there is evidence that Egypt's north Sinai region is becoming not only a rallying point for terrorists but a firing range for Gaza's rocket builders. It was soon after the 2011 revolt in Egypt toppled President Hosni Mubarak that Israeli rocket radars began to spot unusual launches from
Fearing an Iranian attack on strategic and essential oil and military facilities in the Middle East, the United States is helping Gulf countries build a missile defense system, which will include advanced radar missile detection systems, and Patriot missiles to shoot down incoming Iranian rockets. Among the countries to be included in the plan,
