Egypt’s main opposition group on Saturday backed calls to oust the ruling Islamists after deadly clashes and as President Mohammed Mursi scrambled to contain fallout from footage of apparent police brutality. The National Salvation Front said it “completely sides with the people and its active forces’ calls to topple the authoritarian regime and the
A Saudi cleric has called for all female babies to be fully covered by wearing the face veil, commonly known as the burka, citing reports of little girls being sexually molested. In a TV interview on the Islamic Al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing
Egypt’s presidency said on Saturday it was “pained by the shocking footage” of police beating a naked man during overnight clashes outside the presidential palace that has outraged the opposition. “The presidency was pained by the shocking footage of some policemen treating a protester in a manner that does not accord with human dignity
Turkish security forces have detained Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law Suleiman Abu Gheith in Ankara following a tipoff from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Turkish media reported on Saturday. The former spokesman of the terror network reportedly escaped Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and settled in a
The chairman of the state-owned National Bank of Egypt (NBE), the country’s largest bank by assets, has resigned from his post and his resignation accepted by the prime minister, the cabinet said in a statement on Saturday. Prime Minister Hisham Kandil accepted the resignation of Tarek Amer on Saturday, the statement said. It did
While Russia, Hizbullah, Syria and Lebanon condemned Israel and threatened retaliation over the attack early Wednesday on a convoy carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, and/or of Israel's alleged attack against a military research center, Syrian rebels said that they were condemning and threatening the wrong guys; it wasn't Israel that bombed the convoy, the rebels
As reports and analyses of what was said to be an Israeli attack on advanced Russian missiles dispatched from Syria to Hizbullah terrorist bases along the border with Lebanon, Syrian rebels said that Hizbullah had already received numerous advanced weapons from Syria – including chemical weapons. A report in a Saudi newspaper quoted Syrian rebel
Both Hizbullah and Russia condemned Israel a day after the attack on a convoy carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to Hizbullah terrorist bases along the border with Lebanon. In a statement, the Lebanese terror group said that the attack was “barbaric,” and “openly reveals [Israel’s] motives toward [unrest] in Syria over the past
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Cairo next week, becoming the first Iranian president to travel to Egypt since Iran’s 1979 revolution ruptured diplomatic ties between the two most populous countries in the Middle East. Ahmadinejad will head Iran’s delegation to a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, said Amani Mojtaba, head of
At least 48 people were injured after clashes intensified on Friday between protesters and security forces in front of the presidential palace, according to al Arabiya’s correspondent in Cairo. Egyptian security used water cannon and fired shots into the air as protesters threw petrol bombs and stones into the grounds of the presidential palace
