Iran has unveiled a copy of the US Lockheed Martin Sentinel RQ-170 drone which it downed in 2011. The copycat aircraft is due to take test flights soon, officials said at the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council's Aerospace Exhibition. Israel's air force only recently held maneuvers designed to deal with a sophisticated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Egypt’s former foreign minister said on Wednesday that Hamas must recognize the existence of Israel in order to make it possible to move forward with a Palestinian state, AFP reported. "It is normal for the Palestinians to reconcile," said Amr Moussa, referring to the unity deal struck between Hamas and its longtime rival Fatah,
Syrian insurgents attacked a regime checkpoint with 40 tons of explosives on Monday, killing at least 30 Syrian troops, including two officers. {youtube}EX6BdJz0Ahg{/youtube} Videos and images posted by opposition supporters online showed an enormous plume of smoke and earth shooting into the air near a small town as men shouted "Allahu akbar".
Egypt's ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has declared that the Muslim Brotherhood movement of ousted president Mohammed Morsi was "finished" in Egypt and would not return if he was elected, AFP reported. Sisi’s comments were made in the same interview in which he revealed that there had been two attempts
The commander of the Iranian Navy stated on Tuesday that his forces were trained to destroy U.S. warships. Speaking to the Fars news agency, the commander, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, threatened the Navy can sink an American aircraft carrier “in less than a minute.” Fadavi added that U.S. air combat power overseas is
An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast. Around 1.1 million people live in the city, which is located about 100 miles north of Tehran. The blast may be related to nuclear development in Iran,
Egypt's ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi declared that if Israel won't recognize the "state of Palestine," with its capital in Jerusalem, he will never visit Israel. Speaking in a TV interview on Saturday, Sisi added "Egypt is a country whose policy, history and honor to contracts and treaties is firmly
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will release a statement condemning the Holocaust, the New York Times reports Sunday, in yet another attempt to repair its faltering image after torpedoing peace talks and approaching Hamas for a unity pact. Abbas will reportedly call the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity
A court in Egypt on Saturday sentenced 11 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to prison terms ranging from five to 88 years for rioting, the BBC reported. The defendants were arrested during a wave of protests that followed the ousting of Morsi last year. Five of the 11 people sentenced on
Egyptian water-pipe smokers were left disappointed on Thursday, as the Nile state banned a competition known as the "World Shisha (water pipe) Championship." Health Minister Adel Adawi on state TV criticized the event, which was scheduled to be held at an exhibition center in Cairo on Thursday and Friday, reports Al Arabiya. According
