Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday barred negotiations with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online video, Al Arabiya reports. The abductions on Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula prompted angry police to protest and shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel, piling
Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit Omar. The residents notified the IDF. A resident, Uri Arnon, told the Tazpit News Agency: "I felt we were going back 75 years,
Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel on Sunday in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with Gaza to protest the abduction of policemen, according to the AFP news agency, which based its report on reports in Egyptian state media. The protesters say the commercial Al-Ouga crossing between Egypt and Israel
Egypt on Monday sent hundreds of troops and dozens of tanks into Sinai, in apparent preparation for a military operation to free seven Egyptian security officers who were kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. The operation could begin later Monday or Tuesday, sources in Egypt said. The seven, a border guard and six police officers, were
Bedouin tribes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula implied on Thursday that they were better off living under Israeli rule and that they have been suffering since Israel withdrew from the region as part of the peace agreement with Egypt. The residents of the Sinai spoke to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, after local tribesmen kidnapped seven
Syrian state TV has reported a powerful explosion has hit the nation's capital, causing an unknown number of casualties. State TV said Saturday evening that the blast shook the Damascus neighborhood of Ruken al-Deen late Saturday. Residents confirmed to news wires that they heard a large explosion. At least three people are
The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, “All except the Prophet Muhammad.” The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three
US president asks Marines to shield him and Turkey's Erdogan from rain, inadvertently breaches Marine Corp Manual. When United States President Barack Obama asked two Marines to shield him and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the rain he was also inadvertently issuing an illegal order. Apparently Marines are prohibited from holding umbrellas
One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt's city of Alexandria, state newspaper Al Ahram reported. A quarrel between two young men, one Christian and one Muslim, morphed into a family feud that sparked clashes in a western district of Alexandria.
At least 10 people were killed on Friday in an explosion after alleged smugglers set a fuel depot on fire in response to a police crackdown, a local official said. The suspects set ablaze an illegal fuel depot located in the basement of a three-story building in a small village near Turkey's border with
