Former United States President Jimmy Carter suggested on Monday there was a link between the Paris terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hedbo and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, Breitbart reports. The comments were made on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. On the show, the former president
A shocking video posted online Tuesday appears to show ISIS using a young child soldier to execute two alleged Russian spies in Syria. The slickly-produced video - which bears all the hallmarks of previous ISIS propaganda productions - shows two men being interrogated in Russian about their alleged attempt to infiltrate the jihadi group
Moroccan police have detained three suspected supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group near the autonomous Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The arrests were made in the border town of Fnideq where two men were held last month on suspicion of running a cell recruiting young women via
The Syrian government on Monday accused Turkey of allowing "terrorists" to freely cross the border, after Ankara said the wife of one of the Paris attackers entered Syria from Turkey earlier this month, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that the woman, Hayat Boumedienne, arrived in Turkey from
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the African branch of the lethal terrorist group, warned France on Monday to expect new attacks over its “hostility to Islam”, and praised jihadists behind last week's Paris attacks. "France is paying today the price of its aggression against Muslims and its hostile policy towards Islam," AQIM said
President Barack Obama spoke by phone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday, and reiterated that the United States opposes the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) bid to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). “On the Palestinian ICC bid, President Obama reiterated the United States’ position that the Palestinian Authority does not yet constitute a state
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for "daring" to attend the weekend's anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading "state terrorism" against the Palestinians. The comments were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu and Israel in general by Erdogan, under whose rule Turkey's relations with
Despite Egypt's largely secular military-backed government, an Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for "insulting Islam," his lawyer said Sunday. Karim al-Banna, a 21-year-old whose own father testified against him, was jailed by a court in the Nile Delta
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday hailed the unprecedented rally against terror in Paris as a strong message to the world, but added he would expect a similar reaction to attacks on Muslims and “Islamophobia”, according to AFP. Davutoglu joined dozens of other world leaders at the march in Paris to mourn the
The United States last week expressed its dissatisfaction over Turkey’s contacts with Hamas, and the terror group took exception. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in her daily press briefing on Thursday that Washington's position on Hamas has not changed and classified the group as a "designated foreign terrorist organization that continues to engage
