The African Union called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in South Sudan, where U.N. staff say hundreds of people have been killed in nearly a week of fighting. In an AU statement, the organization's chairwoman, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma called for an ”immediate humanitarian truce for the Christmas season, as a sign of a commitment
In what has become routine since the start of the Syrian civil war, Russia on Thursday night once again blocked a UN Security Council statement on Syria. This time, the U.S.-drafted resolution condemned the Syrian government's increasing military offensive on the city of Aleppo, according to AFP. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead
Former Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia was arrested on Saturday by police at the entrance to Maaleh Adumim, just east of Jerusalem. Qureia's Mercedes car was racing at 145 kilometers per hour (90 mph) on a road with an 80 kph (50mph) maximum speed limit. The car's driver ignored requests by
The Temple Mount is a difficult issue because there is a total imbalance between the rights of Muslims and the rights of Jews. And even those who feel Jews should not ascend the mount for halakhic reasons are appalled by that injustice. For the Jewish People, the center of our individual and national being,
Barack Obama is a creature of relativism, even though, without logical consistency, this “post-American” president exalts Islam. The longest chapter in Machiavelli's "Prince" is devoted to conspiracy. No conspiracy—if it may be called that—is more significant than the one enfolding in the United States under its “post-American” president, Barack Hussein Obama. Let us
Dr. Ashraf Ramelah, an Egyptian Christian activist and founder of Voice of the Copts, said in a recent interview with Arab media that the new constitution being discussed in Egypt is further evidence that the so-called “Arab Spring” was nothing more than a front for a revitalization of the Islamic agenda. Ramelah told The
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday condemned human rights violations in Iran, but welcomed pledges by Iran's president to improve in some areas. The resolution on Iran was approved with 86 votes in favor, 36 against and 61 abstentions, reported Reuters. While the resolution on Iran expressed concern at serious ongoing abuses,
Two Muslim converts were convicted on Thursday of murdering a British soldier in broad daylight on a London street, hacking him to death in a gruesome killing that horrified the nation. A jury at London‘s Old Bailey criminal court decided that Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were guilty of murdering soldier Lee
Egypt's military has arrested a jihadist suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border with Israel last year, an army spokesman said Tuesday, according to AFP. Silmi Mohammed Masbah was arrested Monday in Sinai and is allegedly a member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Al-Qaeda-inspired group operating in
Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that “it is possible” the United States would meet with a newly formed Islamist Syrian rebel alliance, AFP reports. The recently formed Islamic Front wants to replace the regime in Syria with an Islamic state. “The United States has not met yet to date with the
