An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in jail activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolt against Hosni Mubarak, for violating the country’s Protest Law and attacking a police officer. Abdel Fattah was arrested last November for protesting against an article in the Egyptian constitution that allows the military
Militants seized on Wednesday Turkey’s consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, including the consul-general, Reuters news agency quoted a source in the Turkish prime minister's office as saying, as Islamist gunmen seized further territory in the Arab country. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, meanwhile, blamed a “massive security failure” for the fall of
Residents from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul fled in the thousands on Tuesday toward the Kurdish city of Erbil as the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) gain control over more key points of the city. With the continuing deterioration in security, the mayor of Ninveh province called on the Kurdish Peshmarga
Many do not think of the Vatican as an independent, sovereign city-state with its own diplomatic envoy, Secretariat of State and embassies around the world. Most think of it as the home of the beloved Pope and the headquarters of the Catholic hierarchy. The Catholic Pope, both spiritual leader and head of a tiny kingdom
Outrage? That is not always the case anymore whatever the insult. We have become so passive, even here in New York, once happily famed for its abrasive citizens, that even talk of a mosque being built at the doorstep of Ground Zero hardly gets as much ink as Derek Jeter’s lapses at the plate.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday offered weapons and equipment to citizens who volunteer to fight Islamist militants, hours after the government forces lost the northern city of Mosul to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). {youtube}53aCUfYuJTk{/youtube} In a statement broadcast on state television, Maliki said the cabinet has
Jihadist fighters of the al-Qaeda inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (SISI) has released a music video calling for the release of fellow Islamists detained in Lebanon’s largest prison facility, Roumieh. The video, posted on the popular video sharing website YouTube Sunday, shows a group of masked gunmen seated on the floor chanting
A Saudi man has reportedly been shot by his wife only a few days after he married another woman. The man and his new bride were attacked by the first wife at in al-Jouf, a region near the northern border of Saudi Arabia. The husband died instantly after the first wife shot at
The Palestinian Authority daily calls for the annihilation of the Jews and their state. The Arabs speak the truth. The “settlers”, Jews living in Judea and Samaria, have proven capable of adapting with impressive resilience to the daily gauntlet of rocks and bottles. What worries these Jews most is not the will of the
Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remark about Israel being an “apartheid state” is just one in a series of statements he has made in the last several months that indicate that he has crossed over the line from being an “honest broker” in a dispute to being an advocate for one side. It is
