Egypt's interior ministry announced Saturday that police arrested 60 people across the country during violent protests the night before targeting government and police buildings. In Cairo, police arrested 30 people in clashes outside the presidential palace, the ministry said in a statement, according to AFP. Opposition activists have organized nearly weekly protests every
With the Jerusalem Marathon set to take place March 1, the Palestinian Authority is warning Israel not to use the race to “Judaize” the city, presenting it as a “unified capital of Israel,” said the chairman of the PLO's action committee, Ahmed Qureia. Qureia is also the head of the “Al-Aqsa Department” in the PA,
A former FBI agent said on Saturday that there were indications that President Barack Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan converted to Islam between 1996 and 1999 when he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh. Agent John Guandolo, who retired from the FBI in 2008, told the U.S. Trento Radio Show that Brennan converted
The English version of the code name chosen for the operations surrounding the upcoming visit to Israel by U.S. President Barack Obama, scheduled for March 20, is "Unbreakable Alliance." The Hebrew name is "Brit Amim," which means, literally, "an alliance between nations." According to Maariv/NRG, the names were chosen carefully by the National Public
Egypt will arm low ranking policemen with pistols, a security source said on Saturday, after they held protests demanding weapons and better work conditions amid a spike in violent crime, AFP reported. Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim agreed to import 100,000 pistols, the source said, after almost a week of protests by policemen. Egyptian
In many ways, the Arab Spring that Westerners thought would bring democracy to the Middle East has actually been the prelude to an Islamic revolution that seems set on sweeping away all opposition to the harshest of Islamist tenets – even at the expense of much of the culture that the Arab world has held
The Hamas government in Gaza on Friday condemned Bulgaria's expulsion of a delegation on its behalf that was visiting the country, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The terror group reportedly blamed Israeli pressure for Bulgaria’s move. Bulgarian security forces on Friday raided the hotel rooms of a visiting Hamas delegation, ordering them
A 16-year-old teenager was killed Thursday morning in Bahrain in clashes between police and protesters on the second anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisings, activists said. But rioters have been clashing with security forces for days, and more than 80 people in Bahrain have been killed in the past two years due to the unrest
President Barack Obama on Wednesday extended his 2011 declaration of emergency with regard to Libya, maintaining that the situation in the country "continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” The declaration allows the administration to extend sanctions on members of Moammar Qaddafi's
A number of Islamist parties in Egypt declared their participation in a planned “Together Against Violence” rally in Cairo, among them is the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. Thousands of supporters of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi took to the street on Friday to denounce violence after weeks of bloody protests between police and anti-Mursi protesters.
