Egypt’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday that his country will “find other sources” of funding after the U.S. announced it would suspend its military support to Egypt. At the same, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy warned in an interview with CNN that the U.S. would hurting itself if cut off aid to Egypt. “If
Tunisian forces have killed nine “terrorists” and seized two tonnes of explosives in the north of the country where policemen died this week in a jihadist attack, officials said Saturday. The suspected “terrorists” were killed in the Mount Taouyer area of the Beja region, 70 kilometers (40 miles) west of Tunis, defense ministry spokesman
At least five people were wounded after a car bomb exploded outside a military intelligence building in Egypt’s Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Saturday, security and medical sources said. Egyptian security forces stopped three suspects allegedly involved in Saturday’s explosion, according to media reports. The blast caused one of the building’s walls
As international attention in Syria focuses on efforts to dismantle the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpile, British experts are warning of another, potentially more lethal threat. Experts from the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) have issued a stark warning over what they say is the "clear and present danger" of Al Qaeda gaining possession
Unknown assailants gunned down Libya’s military police chief, Colonel Ahmed Mustapha al-Barghathi, Friday in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, security services said. Gunmen shot Barghathi outside his home, Colonel Abdullah al-Zaidi, spokesman for the security services, told Agence France-Presse. Zaidi said Barghathi died of head and chest wounds at the Mediterranean
Syrian rebels have killed a top intelligence officer in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Syrian state media said on Thursday, according to AFP. "Major General Jamaa Jamaa was martyred while carrying out his national duties to defend Syria and its people and pursuing terrorists in Deir Ezzor," state television said in a breaking
An Islamist terror group has held a march in Gaza and uploaded a propaganda video that documents the parade and includes interviews with commanders. The group is the Tawheed regiment, which is part of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The main message in the commanders' statements is their commitment to
Hael Abd-el Hafiz Daud, the Jordanian Minister for Sacred Properties and Islamic Holy Sites, warned this week of unspecified diplomatic consequences to the fact that the “Israeli occupation” allows “settlers” to enter the area of the Al Aqsa Mosque and hold up the Israeli flag. This happened, he accused, with the protection of Israeli
Four men have been arrested in London in a counter-terrorism operation, the Metropolitan Police have said, according to the BBC. Scotland Yard said they were held under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Armed officers were involved in the arrests, which took place
Two policemen were killed in a clash with a “terrorist” group west of the Tunisian capital on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “Two National Guard agents were killed and a third was wounded in a confrontation with an armed terrorist group” in the Beja region, 70 kilometers (45 miles) from Tunis, it said
