Al-Qaeda said the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was in revenge for the killing of the network’s number two Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, SITE Intelligence Group reported Saturday, as Libyan authorities have identified 50 people who were involved in the attack. “The killing of Sheikh Abu Yahya only increased the
Syria is showing "contempt" towards the UN atomic watchdog by refusing to cooperate over a suspected undeclared reactor destroyed by Israel in 2007, the U.S. envoy to the agency said Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's government "is using its brutal repression of the Syrian people as an excuse for not cooperating with the agency's investigation,"
Britain is reportedly "poised' to evacuate its diplomats from the Middle East as mob violence against western targets continues, with an independent anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. serving as pretext for the rioting. According to the Mail Online, "Emergency plans are in place to evacuate UK diplomats and their families." Security has been
A group of Arab protesters in the northern Israeli city of Akko had one message for the world on Friday, Channel 2 News reported. “Only a large and strong Muslim state can calm the rage,” the report quoted several dozen Arab demonstrators in the city as having said. The Arabs were part of
A group of Arab protesters in the northern Israeli city of Akko had one message for the world on Friday, Channel 2 News reported. “Only a large and strong Muslim state can calm the rage,” the report quoted several dozen Arab demonstrators in the city as having said. The Arabs were part of
President Barack Obama rejected, during his phone conversation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an appeal by Netanyahu to spell out a specific “red line” that Iran could not cross in its nuclear program, a senior administration official has told The New York Times. The official said this deepens the divide between the
At least three people were hurt on Friday as dozens of armed terrorists, affiliated with the Salafi movement of Islam, stormed the international peacekeeping force base in the Sinai Peninsula, near the Gaza-Israel border. They were protesting the controversial film mocking the prophet Mohammed which has resulted in protests throughout the Arab world. Channel
The White House had to do some damage control on Thursday, after President Obama hinted that the U.S. no longer considers the Egyptian government an ally. Obama, who spoke during an interview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo, added that at the same time “we don’t consider them an enemy.” The interview was held
Yemeni police Thursday shot dead four protesters and wounded 34 others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in Sana'a to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said. The White House, meanwhile, said it was doing everything it could to protect its diplomats in Yemen, where
An Egyptian man described as “mentally disturbed” tried to break into Israel's El Al airline offices Wednesday at Cairo International Airport. Egyptian security sources said 30-year-old Mostafa Abdel-Latif “mumbled incomprehensibly” during interrogations following the attempted break-in. According to Al-Ahram's Arabic language news website, the perpetrator reportedly works at a medical facility in a remote area of
