Spanish lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday calling on the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reported. The motion submitted by the opposition Socialists asks the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by the European Union. It was adopted nearly unanimously in the lower house of parliament, with
The French Interior Ministry on Monday admitted there is a "very strong probability" that one of the ISIS terrorists who committed the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig and at least 18 Syrian soldiers is a French citizen. "There is a very strong probability that a French citizen was directly involved in these
The European Union (EU) has sent a secret document to its 28 member states detailing sanctions to be taken against Israel, if it takes moves the EU feels compromises the creation of an Arab state of 'Palestine' inside Israel. The paper, drafted by the European External Action Service (EEAS), was distributed to European diplomats
Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's offer to build the country's first mosque. Erdogan's offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus. "Muslim sailors arrived in America from
A bomb went off near a train station in southern Egypt Saturday night, as police found three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks in the region, the government said, according to AFP. A charred body was found near the railway station in Wasta, a town in the province of Beni Suef, the interior
The Iranian-proxy terrorist group Hezbollah based in Lebanon has acquired new sophisticated rockets from Iran that are capable of hitting Israel's nuclear plant in Dimona, according to reports Saturday in the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency. The reports indicate the terrorist group has gotten its hands on new Fateh-class rockets that feature a range
Egypt's state news agency reported on Wednesday that prosecutors have asked for the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on trial on espionage charges. According to The Associated Press (AP), prosecutor Emad el-Sharawy said in closing remarks that Morsi and his aides leaked state security documents to
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's adviser and members of his Fatah faction have come out and directly praised the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday in which five Israelis were murdered in a synagogue, after Abbas's office made a perfunctory condemnation of the attack. Abbas's adviser Sultan Abu Al-Einen, who praised another terrorist
Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen may have claimed Tuesday after the Har Nof attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "isn't inciting terrorism" - but that appraisal is completely wrong according to Abbas's own adviser. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed on Tuesday that PA Supreme Sharia (Islamic law)
Egypt will double to one kilometer (0.62 mile) the depth of a buffer zone it is clearing on its border with Gaza, Reuters reported on Monday. "A decision was taken to increase the buffer zone along the border in Rafah to one kilometer. The decision...came after the discovery of underground tunnels with a total
