Widespread looting in South Sudan’s strategic towns has been reported by the United Nations mission in the country, officials said Friday. Peacekeepers found that the key town of Bor, which has changed hands several times in the conflict between government forces and rebels, had been looted, while the northeastern oil town of Malakal was
Deputy Religions Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan visited Thursday at the “Mother's Vigil” tent that the Women in Green movement has set up near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, and joined the protesters in demanding the application of Israeli sovereignty in the mountainous Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. "We demand that Israeli
A Cairo court is to hold a “secret session” in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, and his former top aides on Saturday. Mubarak is in court for alleged incitement to kill protesters, and is to also stand trial this month on embezzlement charges, along with former
Allah has promised Israel to the Jews -- so says Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who declared on his Facebook page recently that "Palestine" doesn't exist. Blogger Elder of Ziyon translated Arab news sources that this Saturday reported on Adwan's statements, in which he quotes the Koran saying Allah assigned
Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shalah is currently in Iran to meet senior officials of the Islamic regime. On Wednesday, the terror group leader met Ali Larijiani, chairman of the Iranian parliament. Larijani praised the "victories" of the Arabs in Gaza during the two most recent clashes with the IDF, Operation Cast Lead and
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said he will run for president, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing a Kuwaiti newspaper. The Al-Seyassah daily quoted Sisi as saying that he had no alternative but to meet the demands of the Egyptian people for him to run in the elections, which are due within six
Saudi King Abdullah on Monday decreed jail terms of up to 20 years for belonging to "terrorist groups" and fighting abroad, AFP reported. The new law comes as part of Saudi Arabia’s struggles to deter Islamist Saudis from becoming jihadists. "Taking part in combat outside the kingdom, in any form" will be punished
How Copts in Egypt take the brunt of rampant violence: Everything changed; all remains the same Egyptian Copts have been paying a high price for survival in the land of their ancestry. In the seventh century, Arab-Muslim conquerors of the Roman occupiers of Egypt demanded that Copts (Egyptians) convert to Islam or die. Fortunately,
In Canada, the Ontario Attorney General (AG) has decided that an anti-Israel activist who called for all Jews living in Israel, and particularly in Jerusalem, to either "get out or be shot" while at a large anti-Israel rally in Toronto did not commit a hate crime. Last August, Elias Hazineh, the former President of
Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, threatened US, the West, and Israel in a televised interview Saturday, according to Maariv. "If the Islamic nation would unite, it could minimize the breathing room of the US and the West until the Zionist regime would no longer have room to breathe," the commander threatened
