Egypt's armed forces have seized a stockpile of anti-aircraft missiles in the Sinai, military spokesman Ahmed Ali said in a press conference on Sunday. The spokesman also said the army will continue operations in Sinai until “terrorism” is defeated, according to a report in Al Arabiya. “Egypt’s national security has been under a
Al-Nusra Front, the jihadist Syrian rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, said on Sunday that its fighters attacked three villages in Syria's Homs province and killed dozens of Alawites five days earlier. “The people's wall of fear has been broken, as this was the first time these villages were entered and such
At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington D.C. At least eight people have been injured, and several of the victims are reportedly in critical condition. Two of those shot were Washington D.C. police officers. One suffered gunshot wounds to the leg; the
U.S. President Obama is in the midst of seeking Congressional approval for a limited military strike against the Syrian government in response to evidence that it used chemical weapons. We asked our Aleteia Experts what they thought of the prospect of U.S. military intervention in Syria and what it could mean for Syrian Christians.
As a leading scholar in the field of public diplomacy, Professor Eytan Gilboa has said Obama has mishandled the situation in Syria and potential negotiations with Iran. Arutz Sheva met this week with Gilboa, the Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, who has made it clear that "time is running
Hamas rejected on Thursday a report that aired on Egyptian state television and which said that the Gaza-based terror group has been involved in teaching Islamists in Egypt how to plant bombs in cars and that it had given them landmines. “This is completely incorrect,” Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for Hamas which controls Gaza, said,
Iran's conservative press trumpeted as a "humiliating blow" the decision by its arch-foe the United States to put on hold plans for a military intervention in Syria following a surprise Russian initiative aimed at defusing the stand-off. "By taking the Russian initiative seriously, Washington will send a signal to Tehran that it's willing to
Leading Kuwaiti newspaper Alrai has reported that the U.S. administration will demand that any agreement made with Syria should commit President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, and commit the remaining parties to working towards a cease-fire agreement. Momentum towards a U.S. led strike against Syria following its suspected use of deadly sarin gas on
Iran, Syria and Russia have effectively defeated the United States, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Meir Rosenne has warned. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Dr. Rosenne explained that U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to back down on intervention in Syria, and to go along with a Russian initiative instead, will have severe repercussions for
The United States on Thursday once again called on Egypt's interim authorities to lift a state of emergency which has been in force since August. The call came after Cairo announced it would extend the state of emergency for two months. "We remain opposed, as we have from the beginning, to the state of
