The following list of 58 looted and burned buildings (including convents and schools) has been verified by representatives of the Christian Churches. At least 58 Christian churches, schools, institutions, homes and shops have been attacked, looted and torched over the last three days by the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the
A vow by Al-Qaeda to carry out an attack that would "change the face of history" was behind this month's closures of Western embassies, the president of Yemen revealed Friday, according to Reuters. In the first public disclosure by a government leader of details of the intercepted call that prompted the U.S. alert, President
A U.S. institute tracking Iran's military program said on Thursday that recent satellite images show further major alterations of a military site that the UN atomic agency suspects may have been used in trying to develop nuclear arms. The most recent imagery from satellite company Digital Globe is from August 13 and was seen
The EU boycott should not have been a surprise. Interview with Susanne Urban, a German historian, who elucidates on the situation. “Anti-Semitism was officially delegitimized in Germany after its surrender in 1945. This happened first in public areas such as politics, economy, culture, art and later on in society at large. Public debates and
Tunisia’s opposition coalition on Friday rejected proposals by the ruling Islamists for ending a month-long political crisis, saying its offer to enter talks on a government of technocrats was insufficient. “All negotiations without the dissolution of the government are a waste of time,” said Taieb Baccouche, a representative of the National Salvation Front.
Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers urged Egypt on Wednesday to reopen the border crossing with Gaza that was closed after Islamist terrorists killed 25 Egyptian security personnel in northern Sinai earlier this week. The officers were killed as they were travelling in two buses which came under attack from armed men close to the town
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have no intention of backing down on their protests against the military. With Friday, the day on which the largest protests usually take place following prayers at the mosques, just around the corner, a group of Morsi supporters is calling on Egyptians to hold "Friday of Martyrs"
A firebrand Egyptian cleric and television preacher has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood after his arrest on Wednesday near the Libyan border. Safwat el-Hegazy told investigators that he was not part of the Muslim Brotherhood and that if he could go back in time he would have never supported them, a security source said. “It’s
A spokesperson for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Ahmed Arif, was arrested in an apartment in a Cairo district early Thursday in the escalating crackdown by authorities on the Islamist movement in which hundreds have also been arrested, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported. Arif was arrested after the security forces obtained information of him hiding in
Egypt’s Brotherhood- linked cleric Safwat el-Hegazy had his “beard shaved and hair dyed as a disguise,” when he was arrested this week, according to a local media report. This has prompted analysts to believe that Islamists are adopting a fatwa (religious edict) legalizing the shaving of one’s beard to avoid standing out as Mursi
