Syrian regime forces pounded parts of Damascus during the night, sending residents fleeing from the northern Barzeh district, as fighting also raged in the northern city of Aleppo, a watchdog said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime shelling continued on Saturday and also affected the Palestinian Yarmuk refugee camp along with
Egypt’s official news agency says officials deported seven Palestinians to Gaza after they were detained for days in Cairo airport. The incident shows tensions between Cairo and neighboring Gaza, ruled by the militant Islamic group Hamas. Hamas sees the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi hails, as their ideological parent.
MOSQUES, IN MOSCOW In Moscow, you can snub an entire religion and not have it blow back on your political career. Mayor Sergey Sobyanin is doing just that in his battle against "excessive" numbers of migrant workers, many of whom happen to be Muslim. Sobyanin recently declared that he would not allow any new
Iran is "over a year or so" from getting a nuclear bomb, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News on Thursday, a week before his visit to Israel. Obama laid out a clear timeline for Iran to acquire a military nuclear capacity, while insisting that the U.S. would
Hundreds of Egyptians demonstrated in Cairo on Friday to press for the army to assume power in a country plagued by unrest and instability two years after a revolution which toppled president Hosni Mubarak. According to a report in AFP, the protest was held in eastern Cairo in response to a call by retired
As the Syrian crisis enters its third year, an end to the violence in the country is nowhere to be seen. The world has become accustomed to rising death tolls and reports of shelling and destruction. However, another threat looms in Syria, and this time it is targeting its cultural heritage. Palmyra, one of
A legal body representing Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday filed an appeal against a court ruling cancelling the country’s controversial parliamentary polls, judicial sources said. The Egyptian State Lawsuit Authority (ESLA) filed the suit on behalf of the president and the Supreme Administrative Court will examine the case on Sunday, one source said,
Egyptian media is reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood is cooperating with other Islamist groups in order form to form civilian police units with powers of arrest. According to an Egypt Independent report: Tue, 12/03/2013 Jama’a al-Islamiya and the Muslim Brotherhood announced Tuesday that they are working to form groups known as the civilian police
Iran is making slow but steady progress in its nuclear development program says Israel’s military intelligence chief, with Tehran assuming a military strike on its facilities is “not likely.” The effort to move its nuclear technology forward is “advancing slower than Iran had hoped, but it is progressing,” Military Intelligence chief Major-General Aviv Kochavi
Speaking at the 2013 Herzliya Conference Wednesday, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata told a packed auditorium that even if Iran acted rationally with nuclear weapons, Tehran would still pose an unacceptable global threat. “Under its own nuclear umbrella, Teheran would be free to raise and lower the volume of regional tension as best
