An Egyptian court said on Sunday that the Hamas rulers of Gaza and Lebanon’s Hizbullah terrorist group helped prisoners, including current President Mohammed Morsi, escape during the 2011 uprising. AFP reported that the head of the court in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya asked the state prosecutor to investigate the circumstances of the
Gunmen burst into a hotel in northern Pakistan early Sunday, killing nine foreigners, the interior minister said, according to CNN. The victims included six Ukrainians and three Chinese, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told parliament on Sunday. He said a Chinese man managed to escape. "The attackers abducted two local guides
The European Union failed on Thursday to blacklist Hizbullah as a terrorist group, fearing that such a move would lead to instability in Lebanon and the Middle East, Al Arabiya reported. Britain’s drive to reach a unanimous decision to blacklist Lebanon's powerful Shiite group has failed to persuade the 27-nation bloc, diplomatic sources
The January 2011 uprising “Islam is the solution” was the magic slogan reprocessed by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in January 2011 to ride protestors as angry Egyptians rose up, fed-up with a dictator who planned to hand the country over to one of his corrupted sons. For Westerners, democracy was blossoming with an
An Egyptian court on Sunday said Muslim Brotherhood members conspired with Hamas, Hezbollah and local militants to storm a prison in 2011 and free 34 Brotherhood leaders, including the future President Mohammed Mursi. The court statement read by judge Khaled Mahgoub named two members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood - Ibrahim Haggag and
Turkish police used water cannon on Saturday to disperse thousands of demonstrators who had gathered anew in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hundreds of riot police backed up by water cannon trucks moved in on several thousand protesters chanting for Erdogan’s dismissal. “This is
Egyptian hardline Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya said on Saturday that its member Adel el-Khayat will resign from his post as governor of the ancient touristic city of Luxor following violent protests over his appointment. Safwat Abdel-Ghani, the head of the political bureau of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Construction and Development Party, told Egypt’s al-Mehwar TV that
Syria’s army on Saturday pressed a fierce assault launched four days ago against rebel areas in northern and eastern Damascus, killing three children with mortar fire, a monitoring group said. In northern Syria, rebels said they had begun a new assault on regime-held neighborhoods of the country’s second city, Aleppo. “The district of Qaboon
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi on Saturday renewed his calls for dialogue with the opposition in an attempt to ease deep political rifts ahead of planned protests calling for his resignation set for June 30. “I have said it before. I urge everyone to sit together to discuss what would achieve the interests of
A new law passed by the Hamas government in Gaza banning co-ed schools has left many Christians fearful that their schools are in danger of closure, according to the Beirut-based Al-Akhbar daily. The new law, which mandates gender segregation in all schools, also bans men from teaching at girls’ schools. The law will likely
