The actions of a Russian woman, Yekaterina Ustyuzhaninova, sparked an attack by Libyans against the Russian Embassy in Tripoli last week, leading Moscow to evacuate diplomats and their families for their own safety. The attacks occurred after the alleged killing of a Libyan Air Force pilot and his mother by Ustyuzhaninova. Ustyuzhaninova has been
Egypt’s army chief General Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has vowed on Sunday to continue fulfilling “the people’s mandate to confront terrorism,” in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s military victory in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. “We are responsible before God to continue fulfilling the mandate, we will protect Egypt and the Egyptians,
The drafting of the new Egyptian constitution has been making headlines since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood rule. Several articles in the 2012 constitution are currently the subject of controversy, particularly those pertaining to the Islamic identity of Egypt, even though the representation of Islamists in the new constituent assembly has been drastically reduced in
Unknown assailants have launched a string of deadly attacks across Egypt on Monday. A car bomb hit security headquarters in a southern Sinai town, Egyptian officials said, killing two people and injuring around 50 after, security and medical officials said. In further violence, five Egyptian soldiers were reported killed by gunmen in
In a diatribe against the Russians for supporting Bashar al-Assad's regime, Saudi cleric and poet Muhammad Al-Farraj praised Adolf Hitler for “barbecuing the Russians and the Jews through and through with gasoline.” Last week on Arab satellite channel Shahada TV, al-Farraj recited a poem “about the Russians who along with the tyrant (Assad) are
A suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the headquarters of a rival terrorist commander in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, government officials say. Gunmen first fired shots at the commander's compound in Balandkhel village, after which the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-rigged vehicle into the compound and detonated it. The powerful blast
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ~ John Adams, “Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”, December 1770 A serious problem Progressives (no matter which side of the aisle
At least 34 people have been killed and scores more injured Sunday in Egypt as pro-Mohammed Morsi protesters took to the streets on the 40th anniversary of the 1973 war with Israel - known as the "Yom Kippur War" by Israelis, and the "October War" by Arabs. There were rival protests Sunday throughout
Abbas is proud of his role in the Munich Massacre. Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas financed the Abu Daoud/Black September terror call to murder 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Read the reports, then decide. Wikipedia reports that: “As a commander of Black September, Abu Daoud was the mastermind behind the
Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles at a police station and a nearby primary school in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 15 people including children, a local official said. Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, and there are persistent fears that Iraq will relapse into the kind of intense Sunni-Shiite bloodshed that
