A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, causing casualties, an official from one of the shrines said. Jamal al-Din Shahristani, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said an engineer working on a project between the site and the Imam Abbas
As a reminder to those who thought the account related in the Passover Haggadah might have been an exaggeration – think again. Millions of locusts have swooped down in a swarm from the sky on to the land of Egypt. The locust plague struck over the weekend in the Giza region, home to a
An Islamic cleric who opposes the Muslim Brotherhood described Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Friday as a “Zionist” who shares security interests with Israel, Al Arabiya reports. Speaking to protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasr, leader of the Front “Ozharyoun with civil state,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
Syrian rebels on Saturday hanged two Arabs registered as “Palestinian refugees” at a camp in Damascus on suspicion of aiding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a rights watchdog said, according to AFP. "Rebels in the Yarmouk camp executed two men accused of cooperating with the regime by identifying targets that were bombed last
Voice of the Copts strongly condemns the round-up, detention and presumed torture of Egyptian Copts in Benghazi, Libya being held for allegedly proselytizing Christianity which is illegal in that country. Evidence of such offense is yet unsubstantiated as facts cited by the arresting body keep changing. Furthermore, the charges are highly suspect given they follow
Egypt’s Mohammad Mursi’s English language skills came into question once again, after the recently elected President seems to have misinterpreted a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Barack Obama. A spokesman for the Egyptian president claimed in a recent report that U.S. President Barack Obama told Mohammed Mursi in a phone interview that he
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will stress the importance of Egypt reaching an agreement with the IMF supported across the country’s political spectrum when he visits Cairo, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. The official said if Cairo could agree on a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, this would bring in
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced a new resolution which says that the United States would back Israel militarily if the Jewish State were to attack Iran in self-defense. The resolution was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and is co-sponsored by 15 Senators, including Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), Marco Rubio
The Simon Wiesenthal Center decried UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s silence at a UN conclave in Vienna as Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan charged that Zionism is "a crime against humanity," lumping it together with racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “We witness very frequently the alienation of the ‘other’ in various countries instead of efforts
For the first since the end of the IDF’s Pillar of Defense counterterrorism operation, Gaza-based terrorists opened fire on Friday afternoon towards the Shaar Hanegev region in southern Israel. No one was hurt but a military vehicle belonging to a commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division sustained damage. While Friday’s incident was the
