The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization that has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria continues in its execution of Muslim "heretics" who left the religion and others who don't follow Islam, and is executing those suspected of sodomy - homosexuality - as well. A website identified with ISIS published photographs documenting the stoning
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to make lessons in the Arabic-alphabet Ottoman language compulsory in high schools, despite objections from secularists, AFP reports. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, abolished the Ottoman language in 1928, replacing its Arabic alphabet with a Latin one. He also purged the language of
Iran is illicitly stepping up purchases for its heavy water reactor in Arak, which if completed will produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons a year, UN diplomats said Tuesday, according to The Associated Press (AP). The Arak research reactor is an issue of contention in talks between Iran and the six world powers
Qatar on Tuesday joined its neighbors in supporting Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, despite his crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Qatar has been a longtime supporter. According to AFP, leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, in their final statement, announced their "full support to Egypt" and the "political
An overwhelming majority of Palestinian Arabs support the recent spate of terrorist attacks against Israelis, an opinion poll released Tuesday finds, according to The Associated Press (AP). The poll also found that more than half of Palestinian Arabs support a new “intifada” (uprising) against Israel, and that Hamas would win presidential elections if they
The Irish government is expected to accept a motion to be proposed by the opposition calling on parliament to recognize “Palestine” as a state, Reuters reports. The decision follows the passing of a motion in Ireland's upper house in October calling on the government to formally recognize a Palestinian state. Members of parliament
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday became an observer at the summit meeting of the 122 countries that are members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Associated Press reported. The move is a step toward joining the world's permanent war crimes tribunal, PA officials say. The PA’s UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, said
While many have claimed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is trying to "calm" the string of Arab terrorism plaguing Jerusalem, Abbas's own Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is offered further proof that isn't the case by giving lip service to a libel on official PA TV to incite more violence. In the
Despite facing common enemies in the Assad regime and Islamic State/ISIS terrorist group, Syrian rebels appear as fractured as ever. As Syria's bloody civil war continues to rage on with no end in sight, a recent video obtained and translated by MEMRI offered an insight into the tensions simmering between different rebel battalions -
The head of the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei insists that US President Barack Obama is chasing after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, according to footage provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). {youtube}y3fIzrT2kg8{/youtube} "When you see the American president knocking on every door just to meet our president for
