Sinai Province, Islamic State's Egypt affiliate, fired rockets at the direction of an airport in Sinai used by UN peacekeeping forces on Tuesday night, Reuters reported. Security sources told the news agency there were no casualties in the attack. Details of the attack were not immediately clear, with some sources saying the rockets fell
The West has an interest in the "fragmentation" of the Islamic world and is partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS), one of the world's top Muslim clerics claimed to AFP in an interview on Tuesday. Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar in Florence, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian drug trafficker and two Saudis convicted of murder, despite concerns raised by rights' experts that trials are not conducted fairly in the kingdom. Their cases bring to 97 the number of executions of locals and foreigners carried out in the conservative Muslim kingdom this year. That
Syrian rebel forces seized a major army base in the southern province of Daraa on Tuesday, after 24 hours of fighting, a rebel spokesman and a monitor told AFP. "The 52nd Brigade base was fully liberated from the regime army," said Major Essam al-Rayes, spokesman for the Southern Front rebel alliance operating in the
Syria's brutal conflict has left more than 230,000 people dead, including almost 11,500 children since it broke out in 2011, a monitoring group said Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 230,618 people, according to AFP. The toll includes 69,494 civilians, among them 11,493 children
The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Brazil for consultation, Reuters reports. The move came after the Brazilian Senate passed legislation recognizing the massacre of Armenians during World War I as genocide. The ministry in Ankara also summoned Brazil's ambassador on June 3 over the matter, it
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday welcomed the decision of the United States Supreme Court to reject an appeal to have Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky's passport list "Jerusalem, Israel" as his place of birth, in a key case regarding the city's status as Israel's capital. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas,
The Obama administration has sent Congress a report that harshly criticizes the Egyptian government, accusing it of restricting free speech, arresting political dissidents and undermining democracy, The Associated Press (AP) reported Monday. The report recommends, however, that the U.S. continue sending it $1.3 billion in mostly military aid. The report, quietly submitted to
War-torn Syria has asked the UN atomic watchdog for help in converting a nuclear facility and shipping abroad potentially dangerous nuclear material, the head of the watchdog said Monday. "We have received a request from Syria early this year...we are studying the request," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano told reporters according to
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist AKP party received a heavy blow Monday, after learning it had lost its overall majority in Turkey's parliament after 13 years of undisputed - and increasingly autocratic - rule. After his prime minister initially attempting to put on a brave face and hail the emerging results as a
