The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made a mockery of the U.S. first lady Michelle Obama through series of tweets accompanied by the hashtag: #bringbackourhumvee. The militant group photo-shopped a popular image of Michelle carrying a sign that reads #bringbackourgirls, part of a global campaign to rescue 276 Nigerian school girls
Terrorist organizations in Gaza, including Hamas and Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade faction, threatened on Tuesday that they would take action if Israel continues its crackdown on the Hamas terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria. Commenting on the IDF operation seeking to rescue the three Israeli teens kidnapped by Hamas terrorists last Thursday, the terrorist
Mere hours after the Knesset Security Cabinet decided to give the internal security minister a freer hand to harshen conditions for jailed Hamas terrorists, the Gaza-based terrorist organization released an official statement in response. "We've experienced attacks like this from Israel in the past, but we stood through them. The Hamas movement is not
A new Egyptian cabinet will sworn in on Tuesday after the previous government resigned following Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s landslide victory in May presidential elections. Outgoing Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy is to be replaced by a former ambassador to Washington, Sameh Shoukri, state media reported. Sisi, who led last year’s ouster of former
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued a chilling final words to his U.S. captors in 2009 upon his release from a detention camp in Iraq, saying he would see them in “New York,” a former member of the prison has told The Daily Beast. “He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’” U.S. army Col.
The leader of a military operation aimed at ridding Libya of Islamist militants has accused Qatar of “insisting” on making the North African country a weaker state, in an exclusive interview on Sunday with Al Arabiya News Channel’s sister channel, al-Hadath. “Qatar has been targeting us from the first day we arrived in the
The domestic workers security center of Riyadh Police has told two citizens to pay their domestic workers 111,800 Saudi riyals in outstanding wages. The two Indonesian employees had complained to their embassy that they had not received their salaries for years. The embassy referred the two workers to the domestic workers security center,
An Egyptian appeals court jailed a female Coptic Christian teacher for six months after parents of her students accused her of evangelizing and insulting Islam, her lawyer said on Monday. Demiana Emad, a 23-year-old social studies teacher, was arrested on May 9, 2013 after the head of the parents' association of Sheikh Sultan Primary
Iran sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq to help fight an extreme jihadist insurgency effectively seizing control of major cities in the country, a senior Iraqi official told The Guardian on Saturday. Around 1,500 basiji forces crossed the border into Khanaqin, a town in central Diyala province on Friday, while another 500 entered the
Egyptian authorities on Sunday seized two retail outlets owned by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, part of the ongoing crackdown against the group since its president Mohammed Morsi was ousted last year. According to the AFP news agency, the businesses targeted were the Seoudi supermarket chain and Zad department store, respectively owned by Abdel
