U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday reiterated once again that he will veto proposed bipartisan legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran so long as diplomatic negotiations over a nuclear deal remain underway. "I will veto a bill that comes to my desk," Obama said in response to a question from ABC News at
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is not letting up with his verbal attacks against Israel. A day after he said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had committed crimes against humanity comparable to those behind the Paris attacks, Davutgolu on Friday accused his Israeli counterpart of terrorism and further said that Israeli "provocations" such as
Sweden's foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, said on Friday that Israel had overreacted to her country’s recognition of “Palestine”, and that it had irritated close allies with its reaction. "It is unacceptable how they have been talking about us and everybody else," Margot Wallstrom said in an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter and quoted
Syrian protesters in a rebel-held area of Aleppo on Thursday burned a poster expressing support for satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, accusing it of stoking Muslim anger, AFP reports. Dozens of people marched in the battered district of Salaheddin, in the southwest of Syria's second city, against Charlie Hebdo's new cartoon, which depicts the
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization, threatened to attack Israel on Thursday, citing the pretext of reported Israeli airstrikes on missiles in Syria headed for Hezbollah. Nasrallah, who spoke in an television interview with Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen to be broadcast Thursday night, said his Iran-proxy Shi'ite terrorist group is well armed and
British politicians on Thursday criticized publisher Oxford University Press over its advice to omit pigs and sausages from books for children sold abroad, in a politically correct attempt not to "offend" the Muslim or Jewish communities. The existence of the recommendations was revealed during a debate on BBC Radio 4 on freedom of expression
Paris could be facing yet another terror attack Thursday, officials said, after a policewoman was run down and injured outside French President Francois Hollande’s residence, according to French media. While police have not said whether they are treating it as a terror attack, witnesses told French media that the driver had run the policewoman
French President Francois Hollande has declared Charlie Hebdo "reborn" after its new edition sold out in record time. "Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," the president said Wednesday, after many Parisians joined long queues to get their hands on a copy which, true to controversial form, featured a cartoon of the Prophet
Five Canadians have died fighting alongside Islamic State terrorists in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks in Canada, local media reported Wednesday. The National Post said Ottawa-born John Maguire, who joined ISIS terrorists in Syria in January 2013, died Wednesday in the flashpoint town Kobane. In a video message
official with the Hamas Islamist terrorist organization warned on Wednesday that Gaza could "become" a breeding ground for extremism, unless the world forks over more funds to rebuild after Hamas's latest terror war against Israel. "Our message to the world, which is scared of terrorism and extremism, is that the delay in rebuilding Gaza
