Hamas rulers in Gaza launched a month-long campaign on Tuesday urging alleged Arab "collaborators" with Israel to turn themselves in as a means of being granted leniency. "We announce the opening of the door to repentance for remaining collaborators and for all those who have fallen into the traps set by the enemy's intelligence
A man set himself on fire Tuesday at the Tunisian capital’s center, only hours before the country's lawmakers were to vote on a new government tasked with pulling Tunisia out of a deep political crisis. “This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment,” shouted the man before immolating himself on Habib
Despite the Egyptian cabinet's promises to resolve the crisis of fuel shortage within days, the problem is further developing due to its negative repercussions on citizens. Traders say the number of firms supplying fuel to the Arab world’s most populous country has shrunk and repeated shortages have angered motorists and disrupted industry and agriculture.
In a meeting with a group of Arab Americans this week, U.S. President Barack Obama revealed that he will not push the Israelis and Palestinians toward restarting negotiations or outline a new peace initiative during his upcoming visit to the region, but he will take with him a cash infusion of $500 million – which
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed Thursday a State Department decision to defer awarding the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award to Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim after news reports revealed anti-Semitic messages on her Twitter feed. The messages included a tweet in which Ibrahim expressed her understanding and admiration of Adolph Hitler saying,
Jewish Temple organizations demanded Sunday that the Prime Minister immediately establish an official commission of inquiry into Friday's events on the Temple Mount and the way the Temple Mount police handled them. Friday's events were worse even than those that took place during the Great Terror War that began in 2000, the groups said.
Syrian refugees might be desperate, injured and even starving – but they won’t accept Israeli aid, as rebels vow to reconquer the Golan Heights. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says Israel has offered to send humanitarian aid into Syria via the International Committee of the Red Cross, as the desperation of civilians fleeing the
The presidents of Iran and Pakistan marked the start of Pakistani construction on a much-delayed gas pipeline on Monday, Iranian media reported, despite U.S. pressure on Islamabad to back out of the project. Dubbed the “peace pipeline”, the $7 billion project has faced repeated delays since it was conceived in the 1990s to connect
Al Jazeera is on the hunt for a bigger HQ in New York, after paying $500 million for a small TV network in a bid to boost its U.S. presence. The Qatari broadcaster has looked at the iconic former New York Times building as part of its search, and has appointed the real-estate services
Qatar does not expect to give further financial aid to Egypt in the immediate term, Qatari Finance Minister Youssef Kamal said on Monday. “We already announced $5 billion,” Kamal told Reuters, when asked how much aid Qatar had provided Egypt to date. Asked whether Qatar expected to provide more, he replied: “Not yet.” He
