A Cairo court on Sunday referred four Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who are on trial for the killing of nine and injuring more than 90 in 2013, to Egypt's grand mufti to consider the death penalty. The defendants in the case include 17 Brotherhood leaders, among which are former Parliament Speaker Saad El-Katatni, Brotherhood Supreme
Last week, a UNESCO conference was hastily convened at its Paris headquarters to discuss what can be done to preserve what's left of heritage sites in Iraq and Syria. The iconoclastic jihadists of Islamic State - or Da'esh (ISIS) - had captured a region in northern Iraq which contained 15 percent of Iraq's registered archaeological
An official in Hamas recently vowed to annihilate the “brothers of apes and pigs” - that is, the Jews. The comments by former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad aired on the Al-Jazeera Network on October 31 and were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). {youtube}e9F2sDVgQKk{/youtube} “We say to the
Palestinian Authority (PA) Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein demanded that Israel transfer to the PA the bodies of the two "martyr" Arab terrorists Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal, who murdered five in an attack with hatchets, knives and guns on a Jerusalem synagogue in Har Nof two weeks ago. Hussein, who in the past said
To a thronging crowd in the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber in the UN’s headquarters in New York City, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor declaimed Wednesday that the 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries who fled in the aftermath of Israel’s creation in 1948 “deserve justice –
A series of letters from French nationals, who have left home to join the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, were published recently by the Le Figaro newspaper. The letters offer a rare glimpse into the lives of these unhappy militants - some even begging to come home - whose complaints range
The Central District Attorney's office filed an indictment Thursday morning at the Lod District Court against Muhammed Haj Yahia, 21, a resident of Taibeh, who attempted to burn a Jewish man alive in a violent attack last month. Haj Yahia is charged with intent to cause grave injury, malicious damage to property, and causing
The United States is considering taking “harsher action” against Israeli construction efforts in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, reports Thursday said. According to the report in Ha'aretz, the White House has been discussing taking “active measures” to discourage Israeli construction, instead of just issuing condemnations, as it has done until now. But
Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen has threatened to execute a British-born American journalist if its demands are not met within three days. 33-year-old Luke Somers was kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in September 2013 in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. US special forces reportedly attempted to free him as recently as
Al-Qaeda terrorists have claimed responsibility for a car bomb that killed three people at the Iranian ambassador's residence in Yemen on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Wednesday's bombing, the second in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa claimed by Al-Qaeda in as many months, blew a large hole in the Iranian residence and sent rubble flying across
