Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood is continuing to get closer to Iran. According to a Sunday report in PressTV, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon visit Cairo in order strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. Khalid al-Said Ibrahim Amari, identified in the report as the head of Egypt’s Interest Section in Tehran,
A Palestinian Authority Arab group calling itself “the European initiative to remove the fence and the settlements” has launched a new media campaign in Europe, entitled “Palestine without a fence and with no settlements.” Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi reports that the group’s chairman, Amin Abu Rashid, an Arab-Dutch national known for his activism
President Barack Obama took the oath of office, surrounded by close friends and advisers in a small ceremony at the White House. This officially begins his second term as President of the United States. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath at 11:55 a.m. with the president using first lady Michelle Obama's family bible.
Word comes to us at The Global Lane that churches in Timbuktu, Mali were destroyed this week by the Islamist terrorist group Ansar Dine. Members of A.D. are reportedly searching for the pastor of one church hoping that he will deny the cross and join them in their armed struggle against Mali government forces and
Militant extremist in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda for the mass hostage-taking in Algeria and called on France to halt air strikes in Mali, Mauritanian news website Sahara Media said on Sunday, citing a video. “We in al-Qaeda announce this blessed operation,” Belmokhtar said in the
There has been a surge in the death toll in the attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a gas installation in southern Algeria, authorities say. The Algerian government previously informed journalists that 32 hostages and 23 terrorists were killed in the siege by Algerian special ops forces intended to free nationals from ten different
Two Bedouin Arabs and two Jewish accomplices have been charged with planning a terror rocket strike on Israel. The Shin Bet and the Negev Central Unit of the Israel Police arrested two Bedouin brothers, Mahmoud Abu Quidar, 25, and Sameh Abu Quidar, 22, in recent weeks. The two have admitted to being in contact
Al-Qaeda-linked militants, who kidnapped hundreds of workers at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, said they were after “crusaders” and not Algerian nationals, one of the released hostages told Al Arabiya in an interview on Saturday. The freed Algerian hostage also said that Algerians were treated better than foreigners as they were allowed
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov paid an unannounced visit to Israel on Thursday. Mladenov updated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Bulgaria’s progress in investigating the terrorist attack in Burgas last year in which five Israelis and one Bulgarian were murdered. According to Channel 2, the report found the Hizbullah
Salafist leaders in Morocco have condemned the French military intervention in Mali, calling it a “Zionist crusade” and labelling all Muslims who participate in it “ungodly.” “No Islamic state should provide facilities, such as the use of airspace, to non-Muslims against a Muslim state. It is forbidden by Islam,” wrote Omar Haddouchi, a well-known
