About 500 demonstrators gathered Thursday near the U.S. embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest at a film mocking Islam. President Barack “Obama, we are all Osama,” they chanted referring to Al-Qaeda’s former leader Osama bin Laden who was killed by U.S. forces last year, an AFP photographer at
An Iraqi militia that carried out some of the most prominent attacks on foreigners during the Iraq war on Thursday threatened U.S. interests in the country over a film that has triggered protests in Libya, Egypt and Yemen according to Reuters news agency. “The offence caused to the messenger (Prophet Mohammed)
American warships steamed towards Libya in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others, U.S. officials said late Wednesday. U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to "bring to justice" the Islamist gunmen responsible and the U.S. military moved two navy destroyers towards the Libyan coast, in
Rioting has continued at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for a third day, with 6 police officers and 13 protesters injured in the melee thus far. Demonstrators have been hurling rocks and firebombs at police and at the American embassy compound. Security personnel have been trying to disperse the mob, which gathered
The United States is evacuating most of its diplomatic staff from Libya and flying them to Germany, after an attack on its Benghazi consulate that left four dead, U.S. officials confirmed Wednesday. All diplomatic missions around the world have also been ordered to review their security, a senior U.S. official told journalists. He added
The U.S. Embassy has been attacked by a mob in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, with "protesters" who ripped down the American flag. Hundreds have reportedly stormed into the embassy compound, tearing off the embassy's sign from the outer wall. Gunfire was allegedly exchanged between security guards and protesters, according to various media reports,
Anti-American violence is spreading across the Middle East, with mobs rioting at US missions in Tunisia, Sudan and Morocco. Hundreds of protesters rioted outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia on Wednesday night. Police in the capital of Tunis were forced to fire teargas canisters at the mob when some 300 rioters stormed
A recent secret meeting between the head of Egyptian intelligence and a senior Iranian spy offers new evidence of Cairo’s Muslim Brotherhood government having joined the “axis of evil.” Murad Muwafi, head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, met in early August with a senior official of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and
Israeli families dropped whatever they were doing and raced for shelter once more Wednesday, as shelling from Gaza resumed in the south. Palestinian Authority terrorists sent mortar shells flying at a town not far from the Gaza border at around the time that children were arriving at school, and their parents arriving
The White House told Israel Tuesday that there would be no meeting later this month between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Barack H. Obama. The two had been set to meet in the days after both Obama and Netanyahu spoke at the UN General Assembly, but on Tuesday, Israeli officials said that
