A Farsi-language Iranian news site affiliated with the Islamic regime's Revolutionary Guards suggested that the sons of Israeli leaders are being targeted as a response to the Israeli airstrike in Syria last week, in which Iran's General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed. The news site, Mashregh News, detailed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's sons
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been conducting a nearly four-year bloody crackdown on his own people, said US plans to train vetted rebels to fight Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were "illusory" as they would eventually defect to the jihadists, in an interview published Monday. The Syrian leader also questioned talks to be held
France arrested five Russians Tuesday accused of plotting a new attack as four men suspected of helping the gunmen behind the Paris shootings were brought before anti-terrorist judge. European nations, on high alert after the attacks that shook France to its core, have launched a wave of raids targeting suspected jihadist cells. French
A Rome court on Tuesday convicted six men of spreading pro-fascist and anti-Semitic ideas with banners, posters and graffiti in the Italian capital, according to The Associated Press (AP). A 1993 law forbids use of slogans, gestures and actions evoking Nazi and fascist ideologies or inciting racial hatred. Sentences for the convictions ranged
At least 15 people are dead in Cairo, according to Reuters, following clashes Sunday between police and Islamist protesters, marking the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak. {youtube}Sz4Cj0hitLA{/youtube} The AP said 13 more people were injured in clashes in the Matariyah area of the capital. Al-Ahram reported that
As yet another round of talks between Western countries and Iran on the latter country's scaling back its uranium enrichment program wrapped up with no progress last week, Iran announced that it would seek to enrich uranium to even greater levels. Iranian parliamentarians said over the weekend they would draft a new law to
Libya's Ansar al-Sharia jihadist group on Saturday confirmed the death of its leader, Mohammed al-Zehawi, after Islamist websites reported he had been mortally wounded in fighting in October. "We mourn the death of the Emir of Ansar al-Sharia Sheikh Mohamed al-Zehawi," the group said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency, without
It has been four years since hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protesters gathered in the capital’s Tahrir Square in a popular uprising that ousted then-president Hosni Mubarak. Like the majority of Egyptians living under Mubarak’s 30-decade rule, Egypt’s Coptic Christians, who account for estimated 10 percent of the country’s 85 million population, demanded change.
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has declared that the PA’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) would be fully active by April, the Ma’an news agency reports. Abbas said the most important issues to bring to the ICC were “Israeli settlements and assaults.” The comments, which were made Friday, came during
Increasing numbers of young women are altering the profile of Australians joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, Attorney-General George Brandis said Saturday, enticed by the "false glamor" of the organization. "At an earlier time, perhaps even six months ago, we were concerned almost entirely about young men," Brandis said, according
