The White House warned Congress on Tuesday that imposing tougher sanctions on Iran could lead to “war” by leaving the president only with the option to use force to halt Tehran’s nuclear program. “The American people do not want a march to war,” spokesman Jay Carney said, in a significant stiffening of U.S. rhetoric
A soldier has died after an Arab terrorist stabbed him in the neck and upper body in the Central Bus Station at Afula, in northern Israel, Wednesday. The attack took place inside a bus. "The Israeli soldier who was stabbed this morning by a Palestinian on a bus at the Afula bus station has
A spokesman of the Al-Qassam Brigade military branch of Hamas recently expressed the organization's intentions to continue attacking Israel, promising that the Hamas terrorists will continue working in secret to dig new terror tunnels and continue fighting against the "occupation." Just last Thursday 5 IDF soldiers were wounded in a clash with Hamas while
Belgium said Saturday it had raised the standing of a Palestinian diplomatic delegation to the country to “mission” status in a show of commitment to a two-state solution in the Middle East. Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders confirmed the change from “general delegation” to “mission” after signing an agreement during a bilateral meeting with
A son of Suriname’s president invited people he thought were from the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah to set up a base in his country to attack Americans in exchange for millions of U.S. dollars, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday. Federal prosecutors who already were pursuing drug charges against Dino Bouterse, a son of Suriname
U.S. President Barack Obama thinks that a deal with Iran over its nuclear program is better than a confrontation with the Islamic Republic. Obama made the comments on Thursday in an interview with NBC News, which came amid rampant rumors that a deal was imminent between the West and Iran over its nuclear program.
The American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was recalled from the Persian Gulf on Friday, along with the destroyer USS Graveley from the Mediterranean Sea. The move comes less than a week after Russia sent its most powerful warships to the Mediterranean. Al Jazeera reports the Nimitz moved through the Suez Canal into the Red
Canadian “child soldier” Omar Khadr, who had been a Guantanamo prisoner for a decade, appealed his terror conviction on Friday. Once the U.S. prison camp's youngest inmate, Khadr returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his term. He filed the appeal with the U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review, his
Following Israeli frustration over a proposed interim nuclear deal between Iran and international negotiators, the U.S. president on Friday briefed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the talks. Barack Obama called Netanyahu after the White House had signaled frustration with the Israeli premier, who had earlier complained that the proposed deal was “very bad.”
A child and another person died Friday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s ousted president in Cairo, state news agency MENA said, as Mohamed Mursi’s backers protested in several cities. The 12-year-old boy and a man died in Cairo’s southern Giza neighborhood, MENA quoted emergency services as saying. Protesters with firearms
