Israel has warned Finland that it will stop a boat with activists on board by force if it tries to break the blockade on Gaza, a spokesman for Finland’s foreign ministry said Saturday. "The foreign ministry has been informed by Israel that it would intervene if the ship Estelle which is flying the Finnish
Turkey has banned all Syrian aircraft from its air space as it takes an increasingly firm stance against President Bashar al-Assad regime, while Iran gave U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi a proposal on the Syrian conflict. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that Turkish air space had been closed to Syrian planes.
Egypt began on Sunday the trial of Gamal and Alaa, the sons of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, along with Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak’s last prime minister, over an illegal land purchase. Mubarak’s sons and Shafik are accused of profiteering and wasting public funds. Former PM and minister of Civil Aviation Shafik
Israel killed a top leader of an al-Qaeda-inspired Gaza group in an airstrike, the military said Sunday, a significant blow in Israel’s campaign against the shadowy fighters. Hisham Saidani was killed with his bodyguard in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday, Israel’s military said. He was one of the top ideological
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to keep up their protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, in a speech published on jihadist forums on Saturday. In the seven-minute audio, Zawahiri hailed “the honorable people... who stormed the U.S. embassy in Benghazi and those who protested outside the U.S. mission in
A police car exploded on Saturday during a failed assassination attempt on a police colonel in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Libyan police official said. The attack was the latest in a series of assassination attempts in Benghazi, the cradle of last year’s uprising which ousted Muammer Qaddafi, and where U.S. ambassador Christopher
Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdulaziz was wounded in the neck as he drove in the capital, Nouakchott, reports emerged early Sunday. Al Arabiya correspondent said that the president’s guards surrounded the military hospital in Nouakchott as doctors hurried to take the bullet out from his neck. The correspondent said Abdulaziz was shot after
Hezbollah’s CFO has fled to Israel taking with him large sum of stolen money, classified documents and maps, local news media reported on Friday. The news website, Now Lebanon, cited Hezbollah officials saying that the 29-year old telecommunication engineer, Hassein Fahs, has crossed to Israel carrying with him $5 million in embezzled money from
Only three weeks away from the U.S. presidential elections facing off a tie between the two parties, unverified photographs of President Obama’s wedding band have been published online, claiming the ring to have the Islamic declaration of faith, known in Arabic as ‘Shahada.’ World Net Daily (WND), a conservative online news agency, initially reported
Only three weeks away from the U.S. presidential elections facing off a tie between the two parties, unverified photographs of President Obama’s wedding band have been published online, claiming the ring to have the Islamic declaration of faith, known in Arabic as ‘Shahada.’ World Net Daily (WND), a conservative online news agency, initially reported
