Egypt’s armed forced intervened to overthrow former President Mohammed Mursi to avoid a “civil war,” army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview with the Arabic daily al-Masry al-Youm published on Monday. “The army’ move was dictated by the national interest and national security necessities and the anticipation that the country
Hamas on Sunday called on the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, to stop peace talks with Israel. Instead, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, the PA should work for national unity. Abu Zuhri said that the remarks made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his speech at the Bar-Ilan University, according to which
Egypt’s army chief General Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has vowed on Sunday to continue fulfilling “the people’s mandate to confront terrorism,” in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s military victory in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. “We are responsible before God to continue fulfilling the mandate, we will protect Egypt and the Egyptians,
Unknown assailants have launched a string of deadly attacks across Egypt on Monday. A car bomb hit security headquarters in a southern Sinai town, Egyptian officials said, killing two people and injuring around 50 after, security and medical officials said. In further violence, five Egyptian soldiers were reported killed by gunmen in
A suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the headquarters of a rival terrorist commander in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, government officials say. Gunmen first fired shots at the commander's compound in Balandkhel village, after which the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-rigged vehicle into the compound and detonated it. The powerful blast
At least 34 people have been killed and scores more injured Sunday in Egypt as pro-Mohammed Morsi protesters took to the streets on the 40th anniversary of the 1973 war with Israel - known as the "Yom Kippur War" by Israelis, and the "October War" by Arabs. There were rival protests Sunday throughout
Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles at a police station and a nearby primary school in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 15 people including children, a local official said. Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, and there are persistent fears that Iraq will relapse into the kind of intense Sunni-Shiite bloodshed that
U.S. forces have arrested Libyan al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi on Saturday, following a military raid in the streets of Tripoli. Libi was allegedly involved in the 1988 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which left more than 200 people dead. He was on the FBI’s most wanted list with
A senior Iranian cleric urged Washington and Tehran on Friday to “join hands” to end the sanctions on the Islamic Republic, local media reported, underlining the support of Iran’s influential religious establishment for President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic offensive. “We await practical measures by U.S. officials,” cleric Kazem Sedighi was quoted by Reuters as having
A joint US-Australian citizen has been jailed for 18 years for his part in an Al Qaeda fundraising ring. Between the years 2007 and 2009, 37 year-old Sabirhan Hasanoff helped funneled around $67,000 to Al Qaeda affiliates in various countries, including Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni franchise of the Islamist
