At least 22 people were killed on Sunday evening when fans of the Egyptian Zamalek soccer group clashed with Egyptian police before a Premier League game, the Al-Ahram website reported. Egypt's prosecution said the bodies of the victims were transferred to a Cairo morgue. State news agency MENA said at least 25 were injured.
Syrian Kurdish forces have recaptured more than a third of the villages around Kobane from the Islamic State terror group since routing the jihadists from the town a fortnight ago, a monitor said Sunday. "The (Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) have recaptured 128 villages out of some 350 in the past two weeks," said
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the issue of Iran's nuclear program on Sunday, at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting. "The major powers and Iran are galloping toward an agreement that will enable Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which will endanger the existence of the State of Israel," Netanyahu stated.
Egyptian military airstrikes have killed at least 27 fighters in the northern Sinai region in one of the biggest security operations in the region in months, Al-Jazeera reported on Saturday. The operation began on Friday, when Apache helicopters targeted fighters belonging to the Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis group, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic
Islamic State (ISIS) has steadily been gaining hold in Gaza since taking part in last summer's terror war on Israel, but an attack Friday indicates the terror group may have turned its sights on Hamas to vie for leadership of the coastal enclave. The car of a Hamas official was detonated on Friday night,
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have subjected Yazidi religious minorities in Iraq to mass rape and torture aside from killing hundreds of them at a time; the jihadist group's newest trend against the group appears to be mass graves after executing groups of Yazidis. After a similar find last Monday, the remains of 23 men
Turkey's powerful intelligence chief, one of the most steadfast allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the man who exposed a Mossad network causing major fallout with Israel, has resigned to stand for election as a lawmaker in upcoming elections. The resignation of Hakan Fidan, who has headed the National Intelligence Agency (MIT) since
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday ordered a squadron of F-16 warplanes to be stationed in Jordan to support it in strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, apparently taking back its decision last Wednesday to withdraw from the US-led anti-ISIS coalition. The federation's official WAM news agency said Abu Dhabi Crown Prince
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday ordered the formation of a committee to oversee cases to lodge with the International Criminal Court, in an extension of his unilateral move that breaches the 1993 Oslo Accords which created the PA. The PA formally joined the ICC last month, aiming to use the international
Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebel movement on Friday announced it is taking over the government and dissolving parliament. In a televised statement, the group said a five-member council would act as the president for an interim period, according to the BBC. The group took control of the capital Sanaa in September, forcing the resignation
