The radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) continues to ride high in Iraq, where it has captured large portions of the country in a blitz advance since toppling the second-largest city of Mosul last Monday. After capturing Iraq's largest oil refinery, and becoming the "world's richest terrorist organization" by looting 500
A Sudanese cleric called last week for attacks on American targets, should the United States launch an airstrike on jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant who have taken over several cities in Iraq. In a Friday sermon, the cleric Muhammad Al-Jazouli said that all U.S. embassies and interests would become
We have all suffered the glaring omissions, false moral equivalencies, and unfair and unbalanced reporting in the formerly distinguished mainstream media venues. This media has absolutely refused to write about Islamic Jihad-terrorism in a truthful way. The politically correct fearfulness that they will be condemned as unfashionable and Islamophobic--and perhaps sued and bombed by
A series of improvised explosives have targeted several metro stations and a court in the Egyptian capital during morning rush hour on Wednesday, leaving at least four people wounded. Four makeshift bombs exploded within minutes of each other at three Cairo metro stations, Egyptian police said. One bomb went off at the station
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and 13 others to death over violence that killed 10 people in Cairo last summer, AFP reports. Since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July of 2013, hundreds of his supporters and Badie himself have been sentenced to death in speedy
Yet another Canadian citizen has been observed fighting as a Jihadist in the Middle East. Farah Mohamed Shirdon, from Calgary, was seen in a video showing members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) preparing to go into battle in Iraq. Shirdon, who is seen in the video released about two
Israel fears that a jihadist offensive that has swept up swathes of Iraq may prompt concessions to arch-foe Iran from its longtime ally the United States. "If Washington needs Tehran's help to solve the Iraq crisis, the United States will need to be more flexible in negotiations on Iran's nuclear program," Voice of Israel
As the live airwaves of Egypt’s state TV deliver the Al Ahzar lectures cautioning against apostasy and Atheism to all those carrying state-issued I.D. cards indicating Egypt’s official religion, Egypt’s newly installed president, Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, foregoes public prayers and mosque attendance as the first modern leader ever to skip over this tradition within his
Libya on Wednesday condemned the United States’ arrest on its soil of a man suspected of masterminding the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the detention as a violation of Libyan sovereignty. According to Reuters, Libya’s Justice Minister Saleh al-Marghani said the suspect, Ahmed Abu Khatallah, should be returned to Libya
Palestinian Arabs have made a show of celebrating the kidnapping of three missing yeshiva students, taking to social media and handing out sweets in public places. However, most Gazans are actually very concerned at the thought of Israel launching a full-scale invasion in Gaza, sources told Walla! News on Wednesday, causing rising dissent against
