As US President Barack Obama attempts to rally support in Congress for a strike on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry is waging a diplomatic offensive with the same objective. Kerry held talks with Arab League ministers in Paris on Sunday, in which Syria was the main topic. Kerry said afterward that the sides
The latest “Israeli animal spy”, a stork that was detained by Egyptian police last week on suspicion of spying, has been killed and eaten, The Guardian reports. Police detained the stork after a man saw a tag on it and caught it, suspecting it was a spying device. The bird was spotted by
White House efforts to convince the U.S. Congress to back military action against Syria are not only failing, they seem to be stiffening the opposition. That was the assessment on Sunday, not of an opponent but of an early and ardent Republican supporter of Obama's plan for attacking Syria, the influential Republican chairman of
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed on Sunday the claims by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad that there is no evidence he used chemical weapons against his own people. Asked by reporters to comment on Assad’s denial in a television interview, Kerry said "the evidence speaks for itself." Kerry made the remark in
An al-Qaeda-linked group based in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt that targeted the country’s interior minister last week, a statement on militant Islamist forums said. “God has allowed your brothers in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis [the Sinai-based group] to shatter the security organization of the murderer Mohammed Ibrahim through
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement refuses to surrender to the intense pressure being brought to bear upon it by the regime headed by Maj. Gen. Abdel Fatah Sisi, who deposed the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in early July. The Brotherhood's spokesman, Jihad al-Hadad, wrote on his Facebook page that the Muslim Brotherhood's position has not
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood general guide Mohammad Badie will stand trial in a second case regarding clashes in which several demonstrators were killed, judicial sources told AFP. Several top figures in the Brotherhood, the group from which ousted President Mohammad Mursi hails, will stand trial along with Badie at a date that is yet to be
The “Arab Spring” has turned into an “Arab Tsunami,” said former head of military intelligence, Aharon-Ze'evi Farkash. Farkash was speaking Sunday at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism's (ICT) World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, taking place at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), He continued to posit that restive populations in the Arab world were bringing their
Syrian president Bashar Assad claims there is no evidence he is responsible for the deadly gas attacks the US government claims left 1,429 people dead, including 426 children. In an exclusive interview with Charlie Rose of PBS, Assad said: "There has been no evidence that I used chemical weapons against my own people."
Tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets this weekend calling for the Islamist-led government to step down. Protesters chanted slogans opposing the leading Ennahda party and waved Tunisian flags. The protest came at the end of the traditional Muslim 40-day mourning period for MP Mohammed Brahmi, an secular opposition leader who was
