Dear friends of VOICE OF THE COPTS, If you read our pages each day and listen to the news, you will learn quickly about the relentless campaign of terror against the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East -- the pillaging, burning, raping, the selling of young Christian girls into slavery, the murdering of
After Hamas and Israeli sources both confirmed indirect talks being held to reach a long-term ceasefire deal on Tuesday, a senior Hamas source revealed that a document of ceasefire ideas, drafted by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, had been received. Blair served in the past as the Quartet envoy to the Middle East.
Despite recent tensions between the neighboring nations, President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday evening celebrated Jordanian Independence Day at the Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv by giving glowing praise to the Hashemite Kingdom. He began by speaking in Arabic, sending his regards to the Jordanian King and Queen and all the citizens of Jordan, which
The White House on Tuesday confirmed that the leader of Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in an airstrike, Reuters reported, calling the death a "major blow" to the organization. Al-Wuhayshi was the head of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorist group. Two Yemeni officials had said on Monday that
An Israeli source confirmed on Tuesday night there had been indirect contacts between Israel and Hamas, hours after sources in the terrorist group said Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect contacts about ideas for cementing a long-term truce in Gaza. "There are contacts with Egypt and other elements over an easing of the
Turkey on Tuesday briefly detained four journalists covering the seizure by Kurdish forces of the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, reportedly because they asked the local governor a tricky question on Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists. Hasan Akbas of the daily Evrensel, Cumhuriyet reporter Pinar Ogunc, Ozlem Topcu of German weekly Die Zeit and
An Egyptian court upheld the death sentence handed down to former President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday. The sentence was originally given last month, but a final ruling on it had been postponed until June 16 pending consultations with Egypt's Grand Mufti, the country's highest religious authority. Five other leading Islamists from the Muslim
Libya's recognized government said on Sunday that Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar had been killed in a U.S. airstrike inside Libya as part of a counter-terrorism cooperation, Reuters reported. Earlier, the U.S. Department of Defense said the military conducted a counterterrorism strike against an Al-Qaeda-associated target in Libya on Saturday night, but were assessing results
The historic Christian Syrian town of Maalula celebrated Saturday as a new statue of Mary, worshiped in Christianity as the mother of Jesus, was erected in its center, replacing the figure destroyed in rebel attacks in 2013. Dozens of families gathered alongside government officials and religious dignitaries in the main square, which was adorned
Yet another senior Iranian general has been killed fighting in Syria to prop up President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Iranian news agencies revealed late on Friday. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Hadi Kajbaf was killed in April around 60 miles south of Damascus, near the rebel-hold town Busr al-Harir, according to the IRGC-affiliated
