A U.S. lawmaker called Wednesday for a boycott of public transit systems in Washington and other cities running a pro-Israel advertisement that denounces "the savage" in Muslim countries, AFP reported. The advertisements, which have also run on trains in New York and buses in San Francisco, went up this week at four stations in
The head of the Hizbullah terror group, Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Thursday that his group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by Iran, AFP reported. The Israeli Air Force shot down the drone on Saturday morning after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea.
The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement which Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi belongs to, called on Thursday for a jihad (holy war) to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. "Jerusalem is Islamic ... and nobody is entitled to make concessions" on the Holy City, said Sheikh Mohammed Badie in his weekly message to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the drone aircraft which flew some 35 miles (55 km) last weekend into Israeli territory before being shot down by the IDF was sent by the Lebanese militia Hizbullah, an Iranian proxy force. Hizbullah boss Hassan Nasrallah was quoted a short time later as saying that
Turkey seized "objectionable cargo" aboard the Syrian passenger plane which it intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, according to an AFP report. "There is illegal cargo on the plane that should have been reported" in line with civil aviation regulations, Davutoglu was quoted as saying
The United Arab Emirates could join a project to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant if South Korea is involved, Turkish energy minister said on Thursday. “Officials from the United Arab Emirates said they could be a partner in the project if South Korea undertakes the building of the nuclear power plant,” in northern
According to a news story on the respected Worldnet News Daily (WND) web site – with an accompanying array of photos as evidence – U.S. President Barack H. Obama has been wearing, since his days in college, a ring on which is inscribed the Shahada, the main Muslim prayer. The report quoted Egyptian-born Islamic scholar
An employee of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, was shot dead by masked gunmen Thursday morning, American security sources said. According to sources quoted by news agencies, the attack was conducted in a manner similar to others by Al Qaeda in Yemen. The employee, Qassem Aqlan, a Yemeni citizen, was on his way
A Syrian Airbus A320 flying from Moscow to Damascus was intercepted by Turkish F-16 jets as it entered Turkish airspace and escorted to the capital's Esenboga Airport, Turkey's TRT television said Wednesday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the plane was forced to land because of information that it may be carrying "certain
Militants in Gaza fired two rockets into southern Israel on Wednesday evening in the midst of a recent cross-border fracas. Israeli police told AFP that nobody was injured. Wednesday morning the IAF hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian security sources told the AFP the air strike “hit a training camp in
