Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said that if Israel insists on maintaining security presence in the Jordan Valley, there will not be a peace agreement. Abbas made the comments in a television interview which aired on Thursday. The comments were cited by Kol Yisrael radio and were made ahead of a meeting between
Iraqi authorities say bombings and a shooting have killed six people around the capital. Police officials say the deadliest of Saturday’s attacks came when a bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s southeastern suburbs, killing three and wounding 11 others. Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in a bomb
Several hundred supporters of the extreme right Golden Dawn party have attended a rally to protest against construction of a mosque in the Greek capital. A contractor to build the mosque was chosen last month, 13 years after the project was first announced by the Greek government. Five previous bids to find a builder
A referendum on Egypt's draft constitution will be held on Jan. 14-15, Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour announced on Saturday. "I call upon you to vote in a referendum on the draft revised constitution on January 14 and 15," interim president Adly Mansour said in a speech to the nation, accompanied by high-ranking officials
On Thursday an Egyptian security forces camp in Ismailiya, near the Sinai Peninsula, was targeted by a massive explosion, leaving at least 35 policemen injured. Officials told Al Jazeera the bombing was followed by gunshots. Ismailiya and the surrounding Sinai areas have witnessed regular attacks on police and military. In October, another security headquarters
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has granted a post-mortem honor to arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who was responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis in numerous terror attacks that he planned, including a bus hijacking in 1978, in which 37 civilians were murdered. Official PA TV News reported that Abbas, in order
House lawmakers are angry at their Senate counterparts over the upper chamber's failure to pass tighter Iran sanctions before Congress recesses, reports the Washington Free Beacon. With only two weeks left on the legislative calendar, congressional insiders say that a new Iran sanctions measure currently under consideration by the Senate is “all but dead
An EU audit has found that some of the money Europe provides to the Palestinian Authority (PA) goes to pay salaries for officials in Gaza who don't work at all. The auditors said the EU pays one-fifth of the salaries of the PA's 170,000 civil servants, in the Arab-occupied Jewish Biblical heartland of Judea
Three Palestinian residents of Ramallah, Mohammad Adawi and his two sons Naser and Nasim, arrived in Canada in 2010 requesting refugee status. According to Adawi, he was forced to flee Samaria following death threats from armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The three recently applied for a judicial review of a 2012 decision
Boko Haram’s leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month. “Allah the Almighty has given us victory in the attack we launched inside Maiduguri (which was) called Borno in ancient times,”
