Two people were killed and nine wounded, including seven policemen, in a bomb explosion on Monday outside the Egyptian supreme court in Cairo, AFP reported. Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told the news agency that a 22-year-old man "died of injuries sustained in his backbone" in the attack. Another man, aged 24,
The Islamic State jihadist group released a video on Monday in which four Sunni tribesmen from the Tikrit region are executed for allegedly collaborating with the government. The video was released on the day some 30,000 government forces launched a huge operation to retake Tikrit, which the jihadists have controlled for almost nine months.
A senior US senator said on Sunday that US forces were specifically targeting ISIS terrorist Mohammed Emwazi, the London man dubbed "Jihadi John" believed responsible for videotaped executions of several US and other Western hostages. "Oh, yes. He's a target. There should be no question about that," former Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein
Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded Sunni jihadist positions in and around Tikrit on Monday in the biggest offensive yet to retake one of the Islamic State terror group's main strongholds. "Security forces are advancing on three main fronts towards Tikrit, Ad-Dawr (to the south) and Al-Alam (to the
In a statement to The Washington Times early Sunday evening, a senior Obama administration official said that a Kuwaiti report, cited by Arutz Sheva, that President Obama threatened to shoot down a possible IAF attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities are “totally false.” On Sunday, Arutz Sheva quoted the Bethlehem-based Palestinian news service Ma’an, which
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday warned Israel's prime minister against revealing details at his upcoming speech to the US Congress of an Iran nuclear deal that world powers are currently negotiating. While he did not mention Binyamin Netanyahu by name, Kerry told reporters in Geneva he was "concerned by reports" that
House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that there is unprecedented demand for seats in the House for Binyamin Netanyahu's speech Tuesday. "I've never seen anything like it,” he said on CBS's Face the Nation. “Everybody wants to be there.” "What I do wonder is why the White House feels threatened because the Congress
American organizations continue to line up behind Binyamin Netanyahu as he nears what is likely his most controversial speech in his nearly nine years as Israel's prime minister. The Kansas-based Unity Coalition for Israel states that "this one man holds the safety of the entire world in his hands. Everything else is a side
The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran. Following Obama's threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV recently aired a report which featured Gazan women training in the use of weapons and explosive devices in the Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades, the “military wing” of the Popular Resistance Committees. The report aired on February 20, 2015, and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). In
