The group is known to be comprised of North Americans and Europeans and is in close alignment with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams, the leading al-Qaeda backed group in Syria according to The Telegraph. The Syrian rebels targeted this large airbase in Aleppo for almost a year. The group of jihadists were
Hassan Rouhani has officially replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Rouhani's election was endorsed on Saturday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in the capital, Tehran. He won the presidential poll in June, promising to reform and to put an end to Iran's international isolation. The ceremony marks
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has accused the United States of "plotting" with Egypt's military, secularists and Christians to overthrow Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, AFP reported on Saturday. Zawahiri made the comments in an audio recording posted on militant Islamist forums. In his first public comment on the July 3 coup in Egypt,
Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday, citing prison breaks across nine nations in the past month, reported the New York Times. The international police organization said that Islamist terror group Al Qaeda is suspected of playing a role in some of the jailbreaks, and asked for help to determine whether the operations
Firebrand Muslim Brotherhood preacher Safwat Hegazi threated on Tuesday to “break the necks of former regime figures and symbols of the National Salvation Front” if ousted President Mohammad Mursi is hurt. Hegazi made the statement during a speech at a pro-Mursi sit-in being staged for over a month now at Cairo’s Rabia al-
In most of the world, children's entertainment is about happy, innocent fun, child-friendly education and positive vibes. Not so in much of the Arab world, where children's TV programs - from cartoons to poetry recitals - are all too often used as a tool to incite violence and hatred. Who can forget Hamas'
U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham urged Egypt’s military-backed government to release jailed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and called on rival parties in the country to engage in a national dialogue and avoid violence. McCain and Graham met with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of international efforts
The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World Tribune. Diplomats told the Tribune that the Obama administration has enabled the U.S. intelligence community to disclose details of Israeli military operations against the
Why should it matter to Obama if US weapons that were going to Syrian rebels via Benghazi fell into al Qaeda's hands? After all, the Syrian rebels are al Qaeda themselves. Obama's all-out attempt to stone-wall the Benghazi truth may hide skeletons much worse than Obama's arming al Qaeda, it may hide Obama's protecting Iran.
A U.S. envoy met Egyptian officials Saturday amid efforts to find a peaceful solution to the stand-off between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi and the army-installed interim government. William Burns met Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, hours after seeing members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party,
