Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon in the restive northeast where the Islamists have carried out deadly attacks, residents and a survivor said. The motorcycle-riding gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs blocked the highway near the town of Logumani, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from
Egyptian police fired tear gas at Islamist students who pelted them with rocks during an anti-army protest in Cairo’s al-Azhar university on Sunday. The students, who are supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammad Mursi, climbed on the campus fence and waved the four-fingered “Rabaa hand” salute, which represents protests at a previous site
Egypt’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday that his country will “find other sources” of funding after the U.S. announced it would suspend its military support to Egypt. At the same, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy warned in an interview with CNN that the U.S. would hurting itself if cut off aid to Egypt. “If
Tunisian forces have killed nine “terrorists” and seized two tonnes of explosives in the north of the country where policemen died this week in a jihadist attack, officials said Saturday. The suspected “terrorists” were killed in the Mount Taouyer area of the Beja region, 70 kilometers (40 miles) west of Tunis, defense ministry spokesman
At least five people were wounded after a car bomb exploded outside a military intelligence building in Egypt’s Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Saturday, security and medical sources said. Egyptian security forces stopped three suspects allegedly involved in Saturday’s explosion, according to media reports. The blast caused one of the building’s walls
As international attention in Syria focuses on efforts to dismantle the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpile, British experts are warning of another, potentially more lethal threat. Experts from the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) have issued a stark warning over what they say is the "clear and present danger" of Al Qaeda gaining possession
School children in New York are likely to get two extra days off to mark the biggest annual Muslim holidays, if the city's next mayor gets his way, AFP reports. New York schools currently have mandatory holidays for the Christian festivals Easter and Christmas, and the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
Hamas is apparently trying to reach out to children, by airing a cartoon promoting its “military wing”, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades. The cartoon aired on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 11 and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades is responsible for some of the
Unknown assailants gunned down Libya’s military police chief, Colonel Ahmed Mustapha al-Barghathi, Friday in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, security services said. Gunmen shot Barghathi outside his home, Colonel Abdullah al-Zaidi, spokesman for the security services, told Agence France-Presse. Zaidi said Barghathi died of head and chest wounds at the Mediterranean
Rabin's yahrzeit is the time for the truth about the vision of this pragmatic leader, rather than the leftist assertion that, had he lived, he would have continued the Oslo process and split Jerusalem. Look at his face as he shakes hands with Arafat. Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and
