Sixteen rebels have been hanged in Iran in retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush, the BBC reported on Saturday, citing Iranian news agencies. The rebels were "linked to groups hostile to the regime", the attorney general of Sistan-Baluchistan province was quoted as saying. They were hanged
Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people on Saturday, seven of them from the same family, security and medical officials told the AFP news agency. In the Dura area of southern Baghdad, gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead a father, mother, four sons and the wife of one of them at their home, the
Just days after Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry threatened to use force to stop women violating a ban on female drivers, one man has come up with a creative way to protest the laws, which rights groups have slammed as discriminatory. Hisham Fageeh, who describes himself as "an artist and a social activist", released an
He also enjoys strangling dogs. Excerpt from an interview that appeared on the internet. The comments are the writer's. About that whole Arab Spring thing. I don’t think it’s going to work out. Egypt isn’t America. It’s not Europe. It’s not 1848 here. It’s a window into another age. It’s a time machine
An ex-Egyptian army officer carried out the suicide bombing last month that unsuccessfully targeted the country’s interior minister, a video posted online Saturday by al-Qaeda-inspired militants claims. Military officials reached by The Associated Press declined to comment on the video posted in the name of the Ansar Jerusalem militant group, which has carried out
At least seven police officers have been killed in Tunisia in clashes with Islamist terrorists, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Heavy gunfire was reported in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, with at least two terrorists reported killed. The violence came as thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the capital, Tunis, calling for
What if the whole Military purge had a bit of self-preservation to it? What if the US Military has grounds to arrest President Obama, not under impeachment, but under usurper status? This may not be as far-fetched as it seems. In fact, it has some very prominent figures looking at the idea. The argument
Al-Qaeda terrorists are trying to get their hands on a weapons arsenal that was left behind by former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Qaddafi’s arsenal which remains in an abandoned desert warehouse in southern Libya, includes 4,000 surface-to-air missiles, each capable of downing a passenger jet,
Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), considered one of the United States’ top nuclear experts. ISIS made the estimate in a new report published on Thursday by USA Today.
Three people including 8-year old girl were killed when a gunman on motorcycle attacked a group of Coptic Christians outside the church in Cairo. People came under fire as they were leaving a wedding ceremony. Ashraf Ramelah, founder and president of the Voice of the Copts, commented on the violence against Christian Copts in
