North Korea has warned the United States of a "horrible disaster" ahead of a large-scale joint naval drill involving a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier alongside South Korean and Japanese vessels. North Korean troops have been ordered to "keep themselves fully ready to promptly launch operations any time", a spokesman for the General Staff of
The family of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said on Sunday he would not enter any negotiations or accept any compromises following a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by military-backed authorities, Reuters reports. Morsi was ousted by the military on July 3 following mass protests against his rule. Authorities have since launched a crackdown
Islamic police in northern Nigeria are threatening to arrest drivers of motorized rickshaws for wearing pants cut off below the knee and sleeveless T-shirts. They say that’s indecent. Spokesman Yusuf Yola of the Hisbah board in Kano state says they will also arrest drivers of the three-wheeled vehicles who carry men and women
A car bomb killed at least 27 people including three children on Monday in the Syrian town of Darkush in the northwestern Idlib province, near the Turkish border, a rights group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the the toll was expected to rise, as a large number of people suffered
Hamas accused Israel on Sunday of "exaggerating things", after it was made public that IDF soldiers recently discovered a tunnel, built by Gaza terrorists, that led from Gaza to a nearby Israeli community. The 20-meter deep tunnel was lined with the concrete slabs that Israel, giving in to international pressure, had allowed into Gaza to
In his Friday sermon, an imam at the Palestinian Al-Yarmouk camp south of Damascus gave local residents permission to eat dead cats and dogs. The camp has been under siege for three months, the humanitarian situation there has severely deteriorated and the supply of food has not been steady, reports Shalom Toronto. Palestinians in
Almost 50 rebel fighters have been killed in three days of skirmishes between jihadists and mainstream rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo, reports Al Arabiya. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that the violence began on Thursday between members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
In one of the most disturbing scenes to emerge from the fighting in Syria, Hezbollah fighters operating under the command of the Syrian army, have been filmed celebrating and rejoicing, as they dragged injured Syrian civilians from a van and executed them. Hezbollah are fighting alongside Bashar Al Assad's men, in their bitter
The United States on Wednesday confirmed it was halting the delivery of Apache helicopters, as well as Harpoon missiles and tank parts to Egypt's military leaders. Washington's review of deliveries of military aid, which includes parts for M1/A1 tanks, was not meant to be permanent, however, U.S. officials stressed, saying only that the
The Obama administration will cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt to register displeasure over the military's pace of restoring democracy following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, reports USA Today. The U.S. provides $1.5 billion in annual aid to Egypt, but the State Department did not provide a dollar amount
