The only way to put an end to terror in Sinai, according to Egyptian official Abdel Fattah Harhour, is to completely raze the Egyptian side of Rafiach. In an interview Thursday, he said that weather conditions in recent days had slowed the rate of evacuation, but that the government must redouble its efforts to
The Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Wednesday compared Israel’s construction of homes in Judea and Samaria to the actions of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. "There is no difference between the terrorism practiced by the group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Israel's terrorism," Erekat said, according to the Ma’an news
Arab League is to meet January 15 to discuss the failed Palestinian Authority (PA) draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council, an official told AFP Wednesday. On December 30, the UN Security Council rejected a draft resolution that would have forced Israel to withdraw from Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria in order
Muslim slaughter of fellow-Muslims and "infidels" reached new modern heights in 2014. Though car bombings still likely have the lead in worldwide attacks, the number of suicide murderers – virtually all them Muslims, and mostly from Sunni Salafist jihadi organizations affiliated with global jihad – appears to be the next-most lethal weapon. The Tel
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a statement offering condolences to Paris on Wednesday night, after Islamists launched a horrific shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine office which killed 12 people. "On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I offer condolences to the President of France, the bereaved families and the French
12 people have been killed in a shooting attack at the offices of French satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo in central Paris. Two of the dead are reportedly police and ten are journalists; some reports say two of the journalists are the paper's cartoonists. Ten people are reported injured, five of them critically.
Immediately after the shooting attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, French Prime Minister Francois Hollande arrived on scene and defined the shooting as a terrorist attack. Hollande noted 11 people were killed by the gunmen who fled the scene after opening fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles and following a
The Palestinian Authority (PA) will join the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 1, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday night, according to The Associated Press. In a statement posted on the UN's treaty website and quoted by the news agency, the secretary-general said "the statute will enter into force for
France warned the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday against escalating a diplomatic battle with Israel after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he would resubmit to the UN Security Council a resolution calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, Reuters reports. Abbas said on Sunday he hoped to resubmit the resolution, which was defeated
The United States military has made progress in its effort to identify moderate Syrian rebels to train for the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists and a U.S. training mission could begin this spring, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, welcomed statements from Ankara
