An American citizen who was arrested by Egyptian security forces in August in El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, has died in jail after apparently committing suicide. James Henry Lunn, a former US Army officer, was detained in the north of the restive Sinai Peninsula on 27th August. He was one of nine foreign
It is detrimental to your health to write or say anything against Islam. In Moscow they used to call it a purge. In Paris it is known as “incitement to hatred”. This is the charge against Ivan Rioufol, one of the most famous and respected columnists of the French newspaper Le Figaro, where
Brain implants? Mind-control? It may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but for at least one Egyptian celebrity it is the only reasonable explanation for comments made by a Muslim Brotherhood-linked preacher last July, following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi by the Egyptian army. During a phone interview with Al Jazeera,
Syrian regime forces operating in the suburbs of the capital Damascus on Monday made a startling discovery: a "terror tunnel" along the lines of the one recently discovered by Israeli security forces along the perimeter with Hamas-controlled Gaza, leading all the way to neighboring Deraa. Rebel forces had apparently been using the tunnel
North Korea has warned the United States of a "horrible disaster" ahead of a large-scale joint naval drill involving a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier alongside South Korean and Japanese vessels. North Korean troops have been ordered to "keep themselves fully ready to promptly launch operations any time", a spokesman for the General Staff of
The family of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said on Sunday he would not enter any negotiations or accept any compromises following a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by military-backed authorities, Reuters reports. Morsi was ousted by the military on July 3 following mass protests against his rule. Authorities have since launched a crackdown
Islamic police in northern Nigeria are threatening to arrest drivers of motorized rickshaws for wearing pants cut off below the knee and sleeveless T-shirts. They say that’s indecent. Spokesman Yusuf Yola of the Hisbah board in Kano state says they will also arrest drivers of the three-wheeled vehicles who carry men and women
A car bomb killed at least 27 people including three children on Monday in the Syrian town of Darkush in the northwestern Idlib province, near the Turkish border, a rights group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the the toll was expected to rise, as a large number of people suffered
Hamas accused Israel on Sunday of "exaggerating things", after it was made public that IDF soldiers recently discovered a tunnel, built by Gaza terrorists, that led from Gaza to a nearby Israeli community. The 20-meter deep tunnel was lined with the concrete slabs that Israel, giving in to international pressure, had allowed into Gaza to
In his Friday sermon, an imam at the Palestinian Al-Yarmouk camp south of Damascus gave local residents permission to eat dead cats and dogs. The camp has been under siege for three months, the humanitarian situation there has severely deteriorated and the supply of food has not been steady, reports Shalom Toronto. Palestinians in
