Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain. "Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the
The Islamic State's Sinai Peninsula terror organization, which was named Ansar Bayt al-Makdas until it swore allegiance to Islamic State (aka ISIS), has blown up the pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Jordan. The pipeline, which is 1,200 km long, and was built at a cost of $1.2 billion, is used for exporting natural gas to
A 35 year-old man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday night, on Haneviim street. A team of Magen David Adom medics at the scene gave him medical treatment and took the victim, while fully conscious, to Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center in the capital. The perpetrator, a 32-year-old Arab
Britain on Thursday condemned the two terrorist attacks that took place in Israel a day earlier. In a statement, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond condemned the attacks, which he called “appalling”, adding, “My thoughts are with everyone affected.” At the same time, Hammond also said he is “deeply concerned” by the tensions in the
Would-be jihadists have been travelling on cruise ships to reach conflict areas in the Middle East, Interpol said Thursday, according to the BBC. The international police body said some of those trying to join groups in Iraq and Syria had used cruise lines to get to countries including Turkey. It said checks to
Senior Egyptian officials both from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government and the army have contacted their Israeli counterparts in the last two days, threatening that the tensions over the Temple Mount may cause "regional deterioration." The covert communication, which was revealed to the Hebrew-language site Walla!, included a warning regarding Jordan's move to pull
"The number of persecuted Christians in the world is 150 million." There are many other figures, terrifying and dramatic, in the pages of the "Black book of the plight of Christians in the world", a unique initiative of French scholars and coordinated by journalist Samuel Lieven. Snapshots of a global and amorphous war. In
The Canadian parliament is in lockdown Wednesday, after a series of shots were fired by an unknown gunman or gunmen. The attack began at the National War Memorial outside of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. A soldier in uniform and carrying an unloaded rifle was shot 4 times and injured by a gunman
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday used his annual message to Hajj pilgrims heading to Mecca to insult Israel and call for its "annihilation." The speech comes ahead of Eid al-Adha on Friday, the Muslim holiday celebrating Abraham's "sacrifice of Ishmael" in an appropriation of the original Torah story, and like his
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, threatened on Thursday that his government will join the International Criminal Court (ICC) if the UN Security Council refuses to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. According to The Associated Press (AP), Mansour said the PA turned to the Security Council
