A Texas school has come under fire for reportedly inviting female students to dress in abayas and refer to Islamist extremists as “freedom fighters.” State Senator Dan Patrick told Fox news that he is disturbed by Facebook photos, posted by one of the students, which showed pupils dressed in Islamic garb in a geography
The jihadist Al-Nusra Front on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack earlier this month on an army factory in the central Syrian province of Hama that reportedly killed at least 60 people. "Thank God, your brothers in Al-Nusra Front... carried out a martyrdom (suicide) operation that targeted an army factory in the town
A rocket exploded in southern Israel on Tuesday in the first such attack by militants in the Hamas Islamist ruled Gaza Strip since a truce ended a week of cross-border fighting in November, Israeli police said. The rocket caused some damage to a road near the city of Ashkelon but no injuries, police spokesman
MK Orit Strook (Bayit Yehudi) said Monday that security forces should not have closed off a section of Highway 60 in order to allow Jaradat's funeral to pass through it. The funeral was accompanied by armed Palestinian Authority forces and had the trappings of a military funeral. "The Minister of Defense must
It is “game over” for Islamist rule in Egypt, former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq told Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview on Monday. “Religious rule is no longer viable in Egypt,” he said. “It’s not even religious rule. What’s happening has no ties with religion. This is a mask.” Islamist rule will last
A powerful explosion shook the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, residents reported, and state television said it struck the eastern district of Qaboun. The blast followed by heavy gunfire caused panic in the capital, where a massive car bombing on Thursday near the ruling Baath party headquarters killed at least 53 people. It
Egypt will reopen talks with the IMF next month on a $4.8 billion loan, a minister said on Monday, and the government laid out plans to reverse a slide in currency reserves and tackle the dire state of public finances. A revised government economic reform programme, essential for securing a lifeline from the International
Despite the ongoing Arab riots in Judea and Samaria, the IDF is not expecting a third intifada (violent Arab uprising), Channel 10 News reported on Sunday. The report came as Israel's security forces faced another day of rioting throughout Judea and Samaria. The rioting has been going on for quite some time, but Arabs
Egypt’s tourism minister is heading to Tehran, the government said on Sunday, as Cairo tries to halt sliding visitor numbers and thaws relations with Iran after a 30-year freeze. Minister Hisham Zaazou will visit the Iranian capital from Monday under a drive “to restore tourism activity into Egypt and discover new and diverse markets,”
The Palestinian Authority has no right to demand that Israel release terrorists it is holding, MK Ayelet Shaked of Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) wrote on Sunday. “We must not become confused by terminology,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “The 'prisoners' in question are not regular criminals, but terrorists.” Shaked was commenting on the
