In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three factions in the country's civil war. Jesus stands, arms outstretched, on the Cherubim Mountain, overlooking a route pilgrims took from Constantinople to Jerusalem
On Monday, November 4th, an Egyptian Triple Seven elite military force helicopter will transport former Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, out of secret hiding where he has been held in custody by authorities since July 3rd this year. Morsi will be flown to a courtroom inside Toro Police School to begin his trial for high treason
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the Middle East Saturday, aiming to shore up decades-old alliances with Egypt and Saudi Arabia left badly frayed by the turbulence sweeping the region. Egyptian state media said the top diplomat would visit Cairo Sunday for the first time since Washington froze part of its $1.5
The Pakistani government Saturday accused the U.S. of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor. The rise in tension, even though the U.S. took out Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, shows just how complicated the relationship between
Top Obama administration officials have been pushing U.S. lawmakers hard to hold off on new sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Some key lawmakers, however, have clarified they are not yet convinced to support a delay. Senator Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a
Egyptian authorities Saturday launched a nationwide search for a French woman reported missing when she failed to catch a connecting flight the day after she arrived in Cairo, officials told AFP. The 25-year-old arrived in Cairo from Ghana on Thursday evening and had been due to fly to Basel-Mulhouse airport in France on Friday,
Why a nuclear Iran is the world's catastrophic problem, not just Israel’s. Livni has missed the point. On October 23, 2013, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni stated, in English, responding to a question about Gulf Sunni States' cooperation with Israel on stopping Iran's nuclear bomb, "In order to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon,
Thousands of illegal foreigners, mostly unskilled workers from Asia, are rushing to leave Saudi Arabia before an amnesty expires on Sunday as they risk being fined or even jailed. Nearly a million Bangladeshis, Filipinos, Indians, Nepalis, Pakistanis and Yemenis, among others, have taken advantage of the three-month amnesty -- announced on April 3 and
Hakimullah Mehsud, the boyish-looking Pakistani Taliban commander who was killed Friday in a U.S. drone strike, was one of the world’s most wanted men with a $5 million bounty on his head. Charismatic and fond of the limelight, Mehsud led the al-Qaeda-linked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to some of the most audacious attacks
Classes are overcrowded, curriculums out of date and facilities crumbling. In Egypt, frustrated parents have for decades relied on private tutors as overpopulation and government neglect have eviscerated public education. And with the Arab world’s most populous country plunged into turmoil since 2011, when a popular uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak, hopes for
