has complained to the United Nations (UN) about several officials who, it claims, entered the country without visas in violation of its sovereignty. These include Republican Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, according to Reuters. Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, called on UN Secretary-General
Islamist terrorists shot dead two Egyptian policemen guarding a Coptic church on Orthodox Christians' Christmas Eve, bringing the number of police killed Tuesday to three. The shooting took place in the central city of Minya, a provincial capital which lies some 135 miles south of Egypt's capital Cairo and is home to the country's
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Sunday said that the PA will not agree to maintain the status quo and threatened that the PA will dismantle itself and “hand the keys” back to Israel. Speaking to Army Radio, Erekat referred to Israel’s decision to withhold the tax money it collects on
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week, Reuters reports. Jordan remains a member of the Security Council, but several other
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to join the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), an official told the Ma’an news agency on Saturday. The head of the international relations and cooperation department in the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior told Ma'an that the PA plans to submit a request to join the group in
As Qatar continues its shift away from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Gaza-offshoot Hamas in favor of stronger ties with Egypt, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal was expelled from the country on Tuesday along with Muslim Brotherhood members. Mashaal and the Muslim Brotherhood members are likely on their way to Turkey according to the
armed and masked gunmen in central Libya abducted 13 Coptic Christians on Saturday, according to a priest and an eyewitness, several days after seven more were abducted from the same area. The abductors, who had a list of the full names of their victims, went from room to room in the Christians' residence in
Egyptian soldiers firing from across the border shot dead a Palestinian Arab man in the Gaza frontier town of Rafah on Friday, medics said, although the motive was not immediately known. The border troops shot the 23-year-old man "in the back and the bullet settled in the heart. He died on the spot," emergency
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) envoy to the United Nations on Friday formally requested membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC), which would allow war crimes complaints to be filed against Israel, reports AFP. "This is a very significant step," envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters. "We are seeking justice for all the victims that have
In a recent interview with Russian news network RT, Fatah central committee member Abbas Zaki threatened the US following the Palestinian Authority's (PA) failed UN bid demanding recognition and Israeli withdrawals. "The whole world should understand that the US is an enemy, pushing Israeli extremists to carry on with their actions, depriving us of
