Egypt is prepared to repay within days $2 billion that Qatar deposited with Egypt’s central bank in May if talks to convert the funds into bonds do not succeed, a central bank official said on Wednesday. “This supposedly should be moved to a three-year bond, and still they have not finished it,”
U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Sweden Wednesday for a two-day visit likely to revolve around Syria, despite the host nation’s effort to draw attention to a broader agenda. Obama stepped off Air Force One at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport fresh from efforts in Washington to secure bipartisan support for military strikes against Syria to
A state of emergency was declared at the Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday night, after a truck driven by a Palestinian Authority Arab man broke an entry barrier on the highway leading to the airport. The truck continued to speed and only stopped after security forces fired at it. The Arab driver and
A bit of bitter cynicism at the beginning leads to a sober analysis of probable US actions. It's really just a cultural thing. We have to respect Syria's cultural diversity. Syria, likely, doesn't celebrate "Labor" Day as we real Yankees do in Martha's Vineyard. You see, for if Assad and his chemo-genocidal
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad challenged the United States and France on Monday to produce proof that his regime attacked civilians with poison gas, warning in an interview that any military strikes against Syria would risk triggering a regional war. "The Middle East is a powder keg, and today the flame is coming very near.
Islamists are known for their ultra-conservative views on alcohol, women and other aspects of western culture they routinely lambast as corrupt and haram (forbidden). But it appears that such Islamic puritanism only goes so far - and where there's money to be made, even the most radical Islamists are ready to 'cut corners.'
A report Monday said that the reason U.S. President Barack H. Obama effectively delayed the threatened American response to the recent chemical attack by Bashar al-Assad's forces was to give the diplomatic process a chance – and to bring Russia on board with the efforts to force Assad to give up his chemical weapons.
Egyptian forces on Saturday arrested the commander of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in the Sinai peninsula, officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. A senior Egyptian official said that Muhammad Ibrahim, 40, was appointed as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Sinai after escaping from prison following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ibrahim, also known as
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike on Syria if needed, defense officials told the Reuters news agency on Sunday. The officials emphasized that the Nimitz carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser,
Egypt's state prosecutor said on Sunday he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters, the BBC reported. The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when seven people were killed in clashes. Fourteen other members of Morsi’s Muslim
