Iran will not be part of the planned Geneva II peace conference on Syria, despite President Bashar Al-Assad’s wish to have his key ally attend, Al Arabiya reported on Monday. According to the report, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday started sending out invitations to the peace conference, but Iran was not
Controversial British Muslim extremist Anjem Choudary has been helping to "vet" potential jihadis for combat in Syria, according to a veteran Islamist leader and associate of his. Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, who spent 20 years in the UK before fleeing to Lebanon in 2005, offered an insight into the workings of the "Al Muhajiroun"
Just one week after the Orthodox Church celebrates Eastern Christmas on January 7, Coptic Egyptians will turn out at the polls to ratify or strike down Egypt’s new constitution draft. If voters approve it Egypt will have a constitution slightly more liberal than Morsi’s but stricter (more religious) than Mubarak’s. As bomb-sniffing dogs prepare the
One of the leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood planned to establish a “Revolutionary Guard” modeled after Iran’s elite military unit, Al Arabiya reported on Monday. The report cited a former member of Al-Qaeda who spoke to an Egyptian TV channel. The man, Mohammad Tawfic, said that Khairat al-Shater, the one-time deputy Egyptian Muslim
Interview with Holocaust Researcher Dr. Rafael Medoff: "The reasons for the failure to bomb Auschwitz and the ways in which the Roosevelt administration misled the groups requesting such bombing, offer many lessons for dealing with today's problems." “During my research I found numerous examples of behind-the-scenes remarks in which U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The premier Dutch soccer team Vitesse left for training in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this year - without its best defender, after UAE authorities refused to allow him into the country. The reason: he is Israeli. Spokeswoman Esther Bal told a Dutch radio station that the team had originally been given permission to
At least 50 Syrian rebels were killed on Sunday as the country’s “second civil war” between moderate and jihadist rebels continued, AFP reported. The latest deaths came one day after several groups of Syrian rebels said they had united for the purpose of launching a new “revolution” the Al-Qaeda-affiliated the Islamic State of Iraq
An Egyptian lawyer, Samir Sabri, has filed a lawsuit against Egypt's president, prime minister and minister of interior, demanding that they declare Hamas a terror organization. The newspaper Al-Wafd reported that Sabri's suit says Hamas has become a terror group and that it has maintained tight ties with the organization that spawned it, “the
The Prague district hosting the embassy of the Palestinian Authority wants it moved after the ambassador was killed in a mysterious explosion this past week, local officials told AFP on Friday. "We asked the Czech foreign ministry for the embassy to be moved out of our district," Petr Hejl, senior councilor of Prague's Suchdol
Egypt's deputy prime minister and defense minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is expected to step down in the coming days to pave the way for his nomination in the upcoming presidential elections, Gulf News reported on Saturday. The report cited the Egyptian Al Wafd newspaper, which said that Sisi’s exit will be part of
