Hundreds of Hamas supporters marched in Gaza on Monday to protest a ruling by an Egyptian court to declare the group’s “military wing” as a terrorist group, AFP reported. Waving the green flag of the movement, which is the de facto power in the coastal enclave, the demonstrators chanted "Hamas is not terrorist" and
Kurdish forces have found the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in a mass grave in northwest Iraq, officials said Monday. "Peshmerga forces discovered a mass grave yesterday (Sunday) containing the remains of about 25 people - men, children and women - from
A senior Hamas official on Sunday slammed a decision by an Egyptian court to brand Hamas’s “military wing” a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, the group’s spokesman toned down Hamas’s initial response to the move, in which it said that Hamas no longer viewed Egypt as a mediator between the group and Israel. Mousa Abu
A reporter for Al-Jazeera English was released Sunday from an Egyptian prison and deported, after more than a year behind bars, The Associated Press (AP) reported. His two Egyptian colleagues remain jailed in a case widely condemned as a sham by human-rights groups, the report noted. Australian Peter Greste was whisked away on
Violence in Iraq killed 1,375 people in January, month eight of the battle against Islamic State terrorists who swept through large areas of the country last summer, the United Nations said Sunday. "A total of 1,375 Iraqis were killed and another 2,240 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in January," the UN
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he “doesn’t know the facts” when asked on Saturday about a report in the Washington Post, according to which the CIA and the Mossad were behind a plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in 2008. Kerry, who spoke in Boston following a meeting with Canadian Foreign
Senior political analyst Brit Hume spoke on Fox News this weekend about the uproar surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's impending speech before the United States Congress. According to Hume, the situation is a "regular mess, which possibly could have been avoided if the Speaker of the House of Representatives had notified the White House
2014 saw a distinct decline in global freedom, according to an annual report from the watchdog organization Freedom House released Sunday - with the Middle East the worst region for freedom worldwide. The annual Freedom Report ranks 195 countries by political rights and civil liberties, with scores assigned to each country via a complicated
Dramatic new video footage shows the Free Syrian Army (FSA) battling Assad's forces in the critically strategic city of Idlib in North-western Syria. Idlib is the connector route between Aleppo and the Assad-dominated port of Latakia on the Mediterranean coastal area. The originally rebel-published video highlights the rebels blowing up a massive Assad
At least seven people were killed when a blast ripped through a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in a central district of the Syrian capital on Sunday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear what had caused the blast near the Souq al-Hamadiyeh neighbourhood of Damascus.
