House lawmakers are angry at their Senate counterparts over the upper chamber's failure to pass tighter Iran sanctions before Congress recesses, reports the Washington Free Beacon. With only two weeks left on the legislative calendar, congressional insiders say that a new Iran sanctions measure currently under consideration by the Senate is “all but dead
An EU audit has found that some of the money Europe provides to the Palestinian Authority (PA) goes to pay salaries for officials in Gaza who don't work at all. The auditors said the EU pays one-fifth of the salaries of the PA's 170,000 civil servants, in the Arab-occupied Jewish Biblical heartland of Judea
Three Palestinian residents of Ramallah, Mohammad Adawi and his two sons Naser and Nasim, arrived in Canada in 2010 requesting refugee status. According to Adawi, he was forced to flee Samaria following death threats from armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The three recently applied for a judicial review of a 2012 decision
Boko Haram’s leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month. “Allah the Almighty has given us victory in the attack we launched inside Maiduguri (which was) called Borno in ancient times,”
A detailed report by the New York Police Department on the deadly Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, reveals previously unknown details of the attack - including the fact that the four attackers likely escaped alive. The report was compiled from publicly-available material and was released Tuesday. The September attack on a crowded mall
A French Islamist who fought as part of a jihadi rebel faction in Syria has said that foreign fighters with a "9/11 ideology" could return to the West, where they would pose a definitive security threat. In an interview with the BBC the anonymous former rebel fighter told of how he had fought for
Iran on Tuesday dismissed an offer from Israel's president to meet his Iranian counterpart as a "propaganda ploy", and reaffirmed its opposition to the Jewish state's existence. "This propaganda to help the regime out of isolation will prove fruitless," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters. She said President Shimon
The trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood members came to a halt on Wednesday after the three judges walked out due to disorder among the defendants. The Muslim Brotherhood members standing trial, including Supreme Guide Mohammad Badie, reportedly disrupted the proceedings by chanting slogans against the judiciary. It is the second time the trial
Ashraf Ramelah’s Report for Voice of the Copts 12/10/2013 Fact: Former Egyptian President Morsi linked his jihadist ambitions for Egypt to Al Qaeda’s. Fact: Former Egyptian President Morsi’s goal for Egypt was to subvert it to Caliphate leadership. Fact: The task of post-Morsi rule is to expunge terrorist buildup and Islamic supremacy.
The Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide turned on his accusers on Monday, when he appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested following the army's overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, reports Reuters. "Why aren't you investigating the killing of my son, and the burning of my house and the group's offices?"
