Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday was reportedly heard swearing at parliamentarians back in Iran during his visit to the United States this week. An angry remark, or curse, is believed to have slipped out of Ahmadinejad after he found out a group of mainly oppositional MPs criticized the size of the entourage traveling
The presence of female cops has been recently sensed in Egyptian streets in what is seen as a positive step towards restructuring the police force, one of the main demands of the Jan. 25 Revolution. “Women are not new to the police force, but their numbers have increased after the revolution,” Brigadier General Ayman
President Barack Obama Tuesday vowed to hunt those behind the “attack on America” in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and said a “disgusting” film that insulted Muslims was no excuse for violence. “The attacks on our civilians in Benghazi were attacks on America. There should be no doubt that we will be relentless
Israel has consented to an Egyptian request to allow Egyptian Air Force reconnaissance planes to patrol the skies along the border with Israel, writes Yisrael Hayom Tuesday, quoting an unnamed senior security source in Cairo. The newspaper notes, however, that the report has received no corroboration from any official source in Cairo. Jerusalem
Iran has tested an array of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, the Islamic Republic's elite Revolutionary Guards announced Monday. The display comes as a show of military readiness for a war with Israel that General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the elite unit, says is inevitable. Medium-range surface-to-air
The European Human Rights Court rejected Monday a final appeal by radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is wanted on terrorism charges. The court upheld the judges’ decision in April in favor of extradition for Hamza and other suspected extremists, ruling that the
Iran blocked access to YouTube, Google and Gmail over the weekend citing the anti-Islam film that has gained notoriety for allegedly sparking the deadly protests that have spread throughout the Arab world. According to Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency, the sites were restricted "because of public demand." "Google and YouTube continued to carry
A senior Egyptian military official who has refused to be named has accused Israel of attempting to provoke Egypt. The official warned that Egypt would “cut off the hands” of any aggressor in the Sinai Peninsula, either domestic or foreign. According to a report published late Sunday night by the Egyptian newspaper al-Masry
Anger over an anti-Islam film reached new peaks on Monday as a call for a mass boycott of the Google search website and video-sharing website YouTube was quick to ripple across the online Muslim world. Arab activists launched a series of campaigns on Facebook, claiming that Google still makes some links to the U.S.-made
Israel has “no roots” in the history of the Middle East and represents a disturbance for Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday. Ahmadinejad said Iran has been around for thousands of years, but Israel has existed for only 60 or 70 years. He said that for a certain “historical phase” Israel represents
