Bomb attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq killed 13 people and wounded dozens of other people on Tuesday, security and medical officials said. Two rounds of mortar fire hit a mosque in Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 25, police and a doctor said, revising an earlier casualty toll. Earlier,
The Ministry of the Interior will invest an estimated 15 million shekels in protecting mosques and monasteries from vandals, IDF Radio (Galei Tzahal) reports. Currently, there is no plan to provide Jewish holy places with similar protection. Minister Gidon Saar has reportedly approved funding for extra security, including security cameras, for dozens of Muslim
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, has confirmed that his older brother Tamerlan was behind the attack, CNN reports, citing a United States government source. Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a shootout with police last week. Dzhokhar has reportedly said little to investigators, but confirmed that
A car bomb targeted the French embassy in the Libyan capital early on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and bringing violence to the capital after attacks on foreign missions in the east. “There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby trapped car,” Reuters quoted an official as saying. “There was
Syria's opposition warned on Monday that Hizbullah’s role in fighting in Homs province amounts to a "declaration of war," while the terrorist group said it is merely protecting Lebanese people, AFP reports. The comments came as a watchdog said the Lebanese Shiite terror group was leading the battle in the Qusayr area of Homs,
Former Military Intelligence head, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, said Tuesday that "Iran has already crossed Israel's new 'red line'" regarding nuclear weapons development. Yadlin, who is the Head of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said that in the summer, Iran will reach a distance of one or two months between a
The as-yet unidentified victim of a car-jacking by the two "Boston Bombers" has recounted his brief but harrowing time in the hands of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as the two brothers fled from US authorities. According to an FBI affidavit obtained by Reuters news agency, Dzhokar, the younger of the two, is said to have
Egypt will try a cousin and top aide of late Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi on charges of attempted murder, although Libyan authorities are pressing for his extradition, Egyptian state media reported on Sunday, according to the AFP news agency. Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, arrested in Cairo in March after a gunfight with police in his
A Syrian government daily accused the United States on Sunday of having "thrown oil on the fire" of the country's conflict by doubling its aid to the opposition. "The meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' held in Istanbul yesterday has thrown oil on the fire of the Syrian conflict," said the Al-Watan daily,
The United States said on Saturday it would double its aid to Syria's opposition, including with new non-lethal military equipment, but paid no heed to calls for arms supplies or a direct intervention, AFP reports. In a statement after talks among the pro-opposition "Friends of Syria" group in Istanbul, Secretary of State John Kerry
