The Obama administration’s two top defense officials on Thursday publicly acknowledged a policy disagreement with the White House over whether to send U.S. arms to the rebels in Syria, Bloomberg News reports. In congressional testimony, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both said
In his opening speech to the chairman of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) summit on Wednesday, Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made a blunder, when he said “Mohamed Hosni.” Mistaking Egypt’s current President’s last name to that of the toppled Hosni Mubarak did not deter Abbas from correcting himself and
Although details of President Barack H. Obama's visit to Israel remained murky, former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon is convinced that Obama will be meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas – together. In a post on his Facebook page Thursday, Ayalon said that plans for such a summit meeting
The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to “wipe it out” if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt’s state news agency. “The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a statement Tuesday after Bulgaria officially blamed Hizbullah for a terrorist bombing in the country that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian last year. Netanyahu called on the international community to recognize Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. The Bulgarian government said Tuesday that two people with Canadian and
Cabinet meetings usually discuss the state of economy, wars and general matters of governance. However, Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil recently utilized a meeting to talk about the dangers of “unclean” breasts. The PhD holding prime minister who studied water resources, somehow, related the lack of clean water to the lack of clean breasts
President Barack Obama will stop in the West Bank and Jordan on his trip to the Middle East in the coming months on a trip which will also include his first visit as U.S. leader to Israel, the White House said Tuesday. Officials had earlier disclosed Obama would visit Israel this Spring and the
Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers have taken another step towards the implementation of strict Islamic sharia law in the region. The latest step is introducing a strict dress code for female students at the Al-Aqsa University, Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi reports. A letter distributed to students in November stated that all students should
Israel will regret its latest "aggression against Syria", a top Iranian official visiting Damascus told reporters on Monday. "Just like it regretted all its wars... the Zionist entity will regret its aggression against Syria," said National Security Council head Said Jalili, a day after Israel implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike near Damascus
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo Tuesday to attend the Islamic Solidarity Organization conference, a step that marks the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in 34 years. President Mohamed Mursi kissed Ahmadinejad as he disembarked from his plane at Cairo airport, footage broadcast by Egyptian state television showed. On
