A suicide bomber has killed 29 mourners at a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan. Victims of the attack were attending the funeral of a local police officer who was gunned down earlier in the morning according to a Reuters reporter who was present. Provincial Chief Secretary Police Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad confirmed at least
Islamists supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi have deployed a catapult in one of their sit-ins in Cairo as part of preparations for a likely battle with security forces. The catapult appeared in pictures circulated on the internet surrounded with walls of sand bags at Ennahda Square, next to Cairo University. Mursi’s
A drone strike - the sixth such strike in two weeks - has killed at least six people travelling in a convoy in Mareb province, in southeastern Yemen. Four of the dead are believed to be Al Qaeda terrorists, and the remaining two are civilians. Speaking to CNN, an unnamed security official explained
Egyptian military forces have captured over 100 Islamist terrorists in recent days – one third of them from Gaza. All were carrying phony Egyptian identity cards. They were arrested in northern Sinai, near Gaza, with some arrested south of Eilat. The false identity cards were probably produced in Gaza, Egyptian officials said, using machinery
Egypt has emerged as a battlefield between the Hamas and Fatah terror groups in their ongoing struggle for control of the Palestinian Authority, according to a top Palestinian Authority academic. Adnan Abu Amer, writing on the web site AlMonitor, addressed accusations by Hamas that top PA officials collaborated to blacken Hamas' reputation among Egypt's
Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, on Wednesday blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for the "failure" of international talks aimed at resolving Egypt's political crisis, Al Jazeera reported. Mansour warned supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi that the government will not make any concessions to them. "The train of the future has left the station,"
On Wednesday, a U.S. federal court named former Libyan Commander Ahmed Abu Khattala as a suspect in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Investigations led following the attack on September 11th, 2012 of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya killing four Americans including Ambassador Chris
The group is known to be comprised of North Americans and Europeans and is in close alignment with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams, the leading al-Qaeda backed group in Syria according to The Telegraph. The Syrian rebels targeted this large airbase in Aleppo for almost a year. The group of jihadists were
Hassan Rouhani has officially replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Rouhani's election was endorsed on Saturday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in the capital, Tehran. He won the presidential poll in June, promising to reform and to put an end to Iran's international isolation. The ceremony marks
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has accused the United States of "plotting" with Egypt's military, secularists and Christians to overthrow Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, AFP reported on Saturday. Zawahiri made the comments in an audio recording posted on militant Islamist forums. In his first public comment on the July 3 coup in Egypt,
