The Egyptian military have denied reports the army clashed with police forces in the Suez Canal city of Port Said on Sunday night, in a Facebook message posted by an official army spokesperson. Colonel Ahmed Ali, issued a statement on his Facebook page on Sunday night denying the reports. "It is completely untrue
The former Al Qaeda terrorist mastermind of an attack in January on an Algerian gas field has been killed in a military assault in Mali. Military spokesperson General Zacharia Gobongue announced in a statement on Chad national television Saturday that Belmokhtar died in an assault that “completely destroyed the main base used by jihadists
Protesters clashed with police Sunday in the Egyptian city of Port Said as the interior ministry decided to move 39 prisoners awaiting a verdict over alleged involvement in a deadly football riot, a security official said. A health ministry bulletin said 253 people were injured in the clashes as the army reported that one
The self-inflicted wounds of an Islamic state begin with words that impound the soul. Issue upon issue upon issue thickens the air and lays heavy on the human spirit suffocating potential. The unpredictability of the fatwa, random and lunatic, holds the populace captive, shackling minds and hearts. This is the terror of state religion.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo on Sunday a day after he said it is vital Egypt revive its economy. The country’s foreign currency reserves have dived to little more than a third of levels before the 2011 revolution and the budget deficit is soaring
A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, causing casualties, an official from one of the shrines said. Jamal al-Din Shahristani, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said an engineer working on a project between the site and the Imam Abbas
As a reminder to those who thought the account related in the Passover Haggadah might have been an exaggeration – think again. Millions of locusts have swooped down in a swarm from the sky on to the land of Egypt. The locust plague struck over the weekend in the Giza region, home to a
An Islamic cleric who opposes the Muslim Brotherhood described Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Friday as a “Zionist” who shares security interests with Israel, Al Arabiya reports. Speaking to protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasr, leader of the Front “Ozharyoun with civil state,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
Syrian rebels on Saturday hanged two Arabs registered as “Palestinian refugees” at a camp in Damascus on suspicion of aiding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a rights watchdog said, according to AFP. "Rebels in the Yarmouk camp executed two men accused of cooperating with the regime by identifying targets that were bombed last
Voice of the Copts strongly condemns the round-up, detention and presumed torture of Egyptian Copts in Benghazi, Libya being held for allegedly proselytizing Christianity which is illegal in that country. Evidence of such offense is yet unsubstantiated as facts cited by the arresting body keep changing. Furthermore, the charges are highly suspect given they follow
