An Israeli military jeep was hit Monday by Syrian gunfire on the Golan Heights, AFP reported. IDF soldiers were patrolling this evening near the northern border when they came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. The IDF Spokesperson told Arutz Sheva there were no casualties and that the incident is under investigation.
Two Saudi Arabian border guards were killed on Monday in an ambush in Sharurah in the far south of the country, near its border with Yemen, Al Arabiya television said. An Al Arabiya correspondent said that 10 of the attackers were previously jailed on terrorism charges. Saudi border guards have in the past
Two foreigners were killed and one was injured when five bombs exploded on Monday at different locations in the Bahraini capital Manama. The director general of the Capital Governorate police said the areas of Qudhaibiya and Adliya were rocked by “terrorist” explosions caused by locally-made bombs. “Initial investigations indicate that an Asian man
Peaceful, democratic Syrian rebels somehow misunderstand both the nature of their peaceful, democratic revolution and peaceful, tolerant Islam. "Damascus Demonstration: To Hell with Freedom, We Want an Islamic Caliphate and Weapons," {youtube}jfaFvXFdGbM{/youtube} Following are excerpts from footage of a demonstration that took place in Damascus, which was posted on the Internet on September 14,
Imagine that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – the traditional site of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus – has been taken over by Cromwellian Puritans. The new owners of the shrine plan to send bulldozers in, replacing the old church with a monstrous building resembling a concrete spaceship. This is so
A huge bomb exploded Sunday morning at a Damascus hotel often used by United Nations observers, state media reported. Several people were wounded in the explosions at the Dama Rose hotel, and it is not known the extent of their injuries or if there were deaths. No one has taken responsibility for the bombing,
“You know what ‘Baraka’ means in Arabic? Blessing,” says veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, who is linked to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. Turabi told AFP news agency that he hopes U.S. President Barack Obama will win a second term on Tuesday. “Obama of course,” Turabi said when asked about
A car exploded on Sunday in a town in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, killing an 11-year-old child and wounding 18 others, in an attack blamed on Kurdish rebels, officials and security sources said. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the “heinous attack” which caused a civilian death as it happened close to a wedding gathering,
There is no connection between the International Monetary Fund’s visit to Cairo and the devaluation of Egypt’s pound last week, an official said. “It is out of our discussion, as the Egyptian currency’s value depends on changes in global exchange rates and I can assure that the EGP is still safe," Ahram Online quoted
The vice president of Sudan announced Sunday that his country does not fear Israel and will stand by the Islamist Hamas movement. "We announce that we will support Hamas... and we will not fear Israeli aggression," Vice President Al-Haj Adam Youssef said, according to an SMS news alert from the official Radio Omdurman.
