Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive cars, but that certainly hasn’t stopped one Saudi woman from driving and even posting an online video documenting it. The video, posted in Arabic to the internet on October 7, was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “I'm driving
Syrian rebels have killed a top intelligence officer in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Syrian state media said on Thursday, according to AFP. "Major General Jamaa Jamaa was martyred while carrying out his national duties to defend Syria and its people and pursuing terrorists in Deir Ezzor," state television said in a breaking
An Islamist terror group has held a march in Gaza and uploaded a propaganda video that documents the parade and includes interviews with commanders. The group is the Tawheed regiment, which is part of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The main message in the commanders' statements is their commitment to
Hael Abd-el Hafiz Daud, the Jordanian Minister for Sacred Properties and Islamic Holy Sites, warned this week of unspecified diplomatic consequences to the fact that the “Israeli occupation” allows “settlers” to enter the area of the Al Aqsa Mosque and hold up the Israeli flag. This happened, he accused, with the protection of Israeli
Four men have been arrested in London in a counter-terrorism operation, the Metropolitan Police have said, according to the BBC. Scotland Yard said they were held under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Armed officers were involved in the arrests, which took place
The money was not used to better the lives of Palestinian Authority Arabs, of that one can be sure When I was a kid, there was a fun saying when you took a cookie before you were allowed to. We would all declaim in turn: "who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Not
Two policemen were killed in a clash with a “terrorist” group west of the Tunisian capital on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “Two National Guard agents were killed and a third was wounded in a confrontation with an armed terrorist group” in the Beja region, 70 kilometers (45 miles) from Tunis, it said
Locked inside a 6th century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity - ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, angels and the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus, hidden for centuries under a blanket of black soot. Italian and Egyptian restorers are meticulously
The latest “Israeli bird spy” is an eagle, according to Hezbollah. On Wednesday, the Lebanon-based terror group reported on its television station Al-Manar that an eagle that was caught by recreational hunters in the town of Ashqout was planted with a spy transmitter, and a copper piece that was attached to its leg had
At least 41 people have been killed in renewed clashes between Kurdish militias and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists. The clashes took place in the oil-rich Hasake province in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory claimed that at least 29 Al Qaeda fighters and 12 Kurdish fighters had
