A faction of Syrian opposition forces captured a regime infantry base in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, as forces battling to topple President Bashar al-Assad advanced on the country’s largest city. The base was the second major army installation taken by Syrian fighters in the city in a week. Its fall is
After threatening that Ankara could set off “World War III” if it allows the U.S. to deploy Patriot missiles on its border with Syria, a report Sunday said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would not be visiting Turkey, as had been scheduled. Turkey's Hurriyet daily newspaper said that the cancellation of Ahmadinejad's visit had raised Turkish-Iranian
Egypt’s main opposition block on Saturday accused President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood of attempted “vote rigging” in the country’s referendum on a new constitution. The National Salvation Front, in a statement, expressed “deep concern... over the number of irregularities and violations in the holding of the referendum,” charging it “points to a clear desire
Attackers using explosives overnight have again sabotaged a gas pipeline in southern Yemen, the energy operator and security officials said on Sunday. Yemen LNG, a gas pipeline feeding Yemen's liquefied natural gas said in a statement posted on its Internet site that the blast occurred shortly after midnight, but it did not give details on
The headquarters of Egypt’s Wafd Party in Cairo was torched on Saturday by supporters of Salafi Islamist politician Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported. The liberal party’s deputy chairman Fouad Badrawi was injured in the attack, in which the radical Islamist’s supporters managed to break into the party’s building despite heavy
In a campaign launched by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to convince citizens on voting for the constitution, a photo was used to represent the character of President Mursi against liberal leader Mohammed ElBaradei. The campaign, “who will you support,” published a photo of the two leaders. In the photo, Mursi, on the right, is kissing
Egyptians started voting early Saturday morning on a constitution draft, which is made up of an introduction, an 11-part preamble and 236 articles. The constitution put to vote on Saturday was drafted by a 100-member Constituent Assembly. About 25 million voters are expected to vote in Saturday’s referendum in ten different provinces. The
US Muslims launched an advertising and social media campaign Friday in the hopes of reclaiming the word jihad from extremists who insist on equating the spiritual quest with terrorism. The campaign features Muslims describing their personal struggles -- the meaning of jihad -- on bus ads, Twitter, Facebook and a dedicated website: myjihad.org.
Dear Friend: As you are aware, the religious minorities including but not limited to Christians, Baha’is, Yazidis, and Mandeans have come under brutal attacks perpetrated by Muslims in Near East and South Central Asian countries. Iraqi Christians (Assyrians also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs, and the Armenian community)
The Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University for women in Saudi Arabia has banned students from wearing trousers, urging them to abide by the campus dress code. The statement was mainly addressed to female students in the school of art and design, for reasons unstated by al-Hayat newspaper. The dress code bans students
