The convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film that stoked protests against the U.S. across the Muslim world was sent back to jail for a year on Wednesday over probation violations stemming from his role in the video. In a tightly guarded federal courtroom in Los Angeles, Mark Basseley Youssef admitted to
An IDF position near the border with Syria was hit by what appear to be stray bullets Wednesday. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. The IDF said that the bullets appear to be strays from light weapons used in internal fighting in Syria. Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized area
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday congratulated President Barack Obama on his re-election victory and said he hoped it would strengthen the “friendship” between their two countries. Mursi hoped for a “strengthening of the friendship between the two countries to serve their common interests, namely justice, freedom and peace,” in a telegram of congratulations
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned fighting by Syrian forces close to a Golan Heights ceasefire line with Israel as a new threat to stability in the region, AFP reported. UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky was quoted as having said a mortar shell and a tank round fired from the Syrian side of a ceasefire
A Turkish court on Tuesday began what Israel calls an in absentia "show trial" of former IDF Chief of Gabi Ashkenazi and three other former senior military officers over the 2010 clash with the terror-linked IHH organization. The prosecutors are demanding multiple life sentences that would amount to 18,000 years in jail for the
Syrian security forces on Monday shut down all the offices belonging to Hamas in the country, Al-Jazeera reported. Despite previously being close allies, there has been a rift between Hamas and the Syrian regime ever since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began. In the first months of the uprising, Hamas’ leaders expressed support
The new Coptic Orthodox pope said on Monday that a constitution being drafted by Egypt’s politicians must be inclusive and the church would oppose any text that only addressed one part of the Muslim-majority nation. Pope Tawadros II, picked on Sunday in a ceremony steeped in the traditions of a church that predates Islam’s
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on Monday that by the time his next term as Prime Minister is over, Iran will not have a nuclear weapons program. Speaking to Channel 2, Netanyahu said that if it is necessary, he will lead an independent Israeli attack against Iran, even without the support of the United
A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine sailed within 200 miles of the U.S. East Coast, defense officials told the Washington Free Beacon. The report follows by three months a similar revelation by the newspaper that a Russian nuclear sub patrolled the Gulf of Mexico undetected for more than a month. The submarine off
An Israeli military jeep was hit Monday by Syrian gunfire on the Golan Heights, AFP reported. IDF soldiers were patrolling this evening near the northern border when they came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. The IDF Spokesperson told Arutz Sheva there were no casualties and that the incident is under investigation.
