For the first since the end of the IDF’s Pillar of Defense counterterrorism operation, Gaza-based terrorists opened fire on Friday afternoon towards the Shaar Hanegev region in southern Israel. No one was hurt but a military vehicle belonging to a commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division sustained damage. While Friday’s incident was the
Egypt’s finance ministry sent a proposal to the country’s antiquities ministry to consider offering key monuments, including the pyramids, to international tourism firm as a quick solution to generate funds needed to overcome the financial crisis, an official has said. Rumors about the proposal, which some described as preposterous, have circulated online for weeks.
An Algerian newspaper reported the country’s authority has carried out DNA tests to confirm the reported death of al-Qaeda’s senior figure fighting in the northeastern of Mali. ‘The security services are comparing DNA taken from two close relatives of Abu Zeid with samples taken from the remains of a body supplied by French forces”
Spain’s Supreme Court has overturned the city of Lleida’s ban on women wearing full-face veils - such as burqas or niqabs - in public buildings, citing religious freedom and saying the city's argument of security concerns was unfounded. In its ruling, dated Feb. 14 and made public on Thursday, the court said the ban
A dance craze that began in an Australian teenager’s bedroom landed on the doorstep of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Thursday, with dozens of protesters doing the “Harlem Shake” outside the ruling Islamists’ Cairo headquarters. Around 70 protesters, mostly men, performed the dance after chanting slogans against the Islamists, who had propelled President Mohamed Mursi to
The United States is training and equipping Syrian opposition forces in their war to oust President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report published by The New York Times. Obama administration officials were quoted by the newspaper on Wednesday as saying the U.S. intends to offer the armed rebels non-lethal assistance and equipment for the
Members of the Samaria Residents Council slammed leftist groups Thursday after police said that what had been thought to be a “price tag” action by Jewish residents of Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin region turned out to be a dispute between Arabs. It was the Arabs who set fire to six vehicles in the village
As President Mohamad Mursi opens national dialogue on the trajectory of Egypt, members of the United States House of Representatives do the same. On Tuesday, the U.S. Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa held a hearing discussing the changes in Egypt over the last two years, and the future of
The head of Israel’s nuclear program, who has top secret information, the highest security clearance and free access to the country’s most guarded sensitive sites, recently had his second laptop stolen, Israeli media reported Thursday. The laptop was taken from Shaul Horev’s family home, a military censor kept the news of the theft from
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the enhancement of bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic and Egypt in all areas, especially in the tourism sector. Ahmadinejad met with visiting Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou on Wednesday and said the expansion of Tehran-Cairo ties would ensure “peace, security and brotherhood,” reported local media site
