Israel’s “peace partner”, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has once again outright rejected an Israeli demand to ensure a peace agreement that does not harm its security. In a speech on Sunday to graduates of a university in Jericho, Abbas also clarified that unless all of the PA’s demands are met, there will not
United States President Barack Obama reacted Monday to news of a mass-shooting at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington D.C, which has killed at least twelve people. “We are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened on a military installation in the nation’s capital,” Obama said. Those who were targeted knew
A shooting spree in a U.S. Navy complex on Monday has killed at least 12 people, including that of an unidentified gunman, city police chief Cathy Lanier told reporters Monday. Lanier said two more potential suspects were still at large after the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard and that the motive of
Egypt's armed forces have seized a stockpile of anti-aircraft missiles in the Sinai, military spokesman Ahmed Ali said in a press conference on Sunday. The spokesman also said the army will continue operations in Sinai until “terrorism” is defeated, according to a report in Al Arabiya. “Egypt’s national security has been under a
Al-Nusra Front, the jihadist Syrian rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, said on Sunday that its fighters attacked three villages in Syria's Homs province and killed dozens of Alawites five days earlier. “The people's wall of fear has been broken, as this was the first time these villages were entered and such
At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington D.C. At least eight people have been injured, and several of the victims are reportedly in critical condition. Two of those shot were Washington D.C. police officers. One suffered gunshot wounds to the leg; the
As a leading scholar in the field of public diplomacy, Professor Eytan Gilboa has said Obama has mishandled the situation in Syria and potential negotiations with Iran. Arutz Sheva met this week with Gilboa, the Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, who has made it clear that "time is running
Hamas rejected on Thursday a report that aired on Egyptian state television and which said that the Gaza-based terror group has been involved in teaching Islamists in Egypt how to plant bombs in cars and that it had given them landmines. “This is completely incorrect,” Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for Hamas which controls Gaza, said,
Iran's conservative press trumpeted as a "humiliating blow" the decision by its arch-foe the United States to put on hold plans for a military intervention in Syria following a surprise Russian initiative aimed at defusing the stand-off. "By taking the Russian initiative seriously, Washington will send a signal to Tehran that it's willing to
Leading Kuwaiti newspaper Alrai has reported that the U.S. administration will demand that any agreement made with Syria should commit President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, and commit the remaining parties to working towards a cease-fire agreement. Momentum towards a U.S. led strike against Syria following its suspected use of deadly sarin gas on
