Canada is "tremendously concerned" about the Muslim Brotherhood, according to an announcement made shortly after the UK announced a probe into the terror organization. “Canada has taken an aggressive stand when it comes to listings [of terror groups] ... but there is a certain process,” John Baird, Canada’s foreign minister, said at a news
The Palestinian Authority (PA) stubbornly clings to its resolution not to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, despite the move's contribution to the failure of peace talks - and the PA's faltering image. On Thursday, PA official Mahmoud Khalifa called Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman's demands that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state
The Lebanese Army arrested a high-level Al-Qaeda operative on Thursday, who is allegedly involved in the murders of UNIFIL soldiers in Arsal and the raiding of a large weapons depot in Tripoli. The suspect: Palestinian Arab Bilal Kayed, a suspected member of the Al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades who has several arrest warrants out
The Syrian Army reportedly killed a number of foreign nationals fighting in Syria earlier this month, in a special operation conducted in the southern rural area of Idlib. The operation, which was first reported in the blog Alternative Angle, saw six foreign nationals killed in the villages of Kafr S'jina and Al-Hamdiya. Killed
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's office wasted no time on Wednesday in denying reports that he condemned the terrorist attack the occurred near Hevron on Monday. The attack left Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi dead and two others, including his pregnant wife, wounded. Leftist MKs who met with Abbas on Wednesday as Mizrahi
The Al Qaeda-linked group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has threatened to attack Canada and the West in a new viral video. One of the terrorists in the short film stated that, after ending the "jihad" in the Middle East, the war will be taken to North America - specifically to
Jordanian air forces destroyed a number of armored vehicles on Wednesday as they crossed the border from war-torn Syria, increasing fears of the sectarian conflict spilling into new territory after more than three years of civil war. "Royal air force jets fighters today at 10:30 am (0730 GMT) destroyed a number of vehicles that
The first footage of Syrian rebels using advanced US-made anti-tank weaponry has emerged, in what some experts say represents an important, though not necessarily game-changing development. Rebels from Harakat Hazm, a "moderate" and relatively secular rebel group, can be seen firing a BGM-71 TOW anti-tank rocket in the video, dated April 15. {youtube}kYNzkYPRico{/youtube}
An explosion in Gaza killed three people and wounded five on Wednesday, a medical official said, but the reason for the blast was unclear. The three killed were already dead on their arrival at hospital, and all were in their 20s, Hamas's health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. The other five were
The Egyptian government has stepped up a campaign to curb Muslim Brotherhood influence over mosques, Reuters reported on Thursday. The government said it has licensed more than 17,000 state-approved clerics to give Friday sermons to stop places of worship from falling “into the hands of extremists,” according to the report. The military-backed authorities
