Thirty complaints have been filed against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former head of Egypt’s army, and his deputy General Sami Anan, for suppressing last year’s popular uprising, a judicial source said Sunday. Anan is also the subject of an additional complaint accusing him of illegally acquiring building plots near Cairo, the source said.
A series of more than 20 attacks across Iraq killed 56 people and wounded over 250 others on Saturday and Sunday, security and medical officials said, with targets including security forces and markets. The latest violence brings the number of people killed in attacks so far this month to 86, according to an AFP
A belated “Palestinian Authority Spring” appears to be limping but getting off the ground in Ramallah. Dozens of PA Arab truck drivers and quarry workers protested in the city where the Fatah-run government controls the remaining PA-controlled areas of Samaria and Judea. On Sunday, main streets in the PA capital were blocked by the
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has begun moving chemical agents in the country's arsenal to the port city of Tartus. According to diplomatic sources quoted in an interview published in the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper, the regime is attempting to create a “safe zone” for top leaders and their families. It is not
Israel might attack Iran by using electromagnetic pulses (EMP) that could cripple the country by shutting down its electronics and sending the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Age,” The London Sunday Times reported. EMP causes non-lethal gamma energy to react with the magnetic field and produces a powerful electromagnetic shock wave that can
A Pakistani military helicopter plucked a young Christian girl accused of blasphemy from a prison yard on Saturday and flew her to a secret location after she was granted bail. Live broadcasts showed heavily-armed police surrounding Rimsha Masih, believed to be no older than 14, covering her face with a green scarf as she
Egypt’s new prime minister, appointed in the summer, said on Sunday his government was finalizing a package of economic reforms to boost tax revenue and cut consumer subsidies and that he would present a draft to the president next week. Hisham Qandil told Reuters in an interview the government planned to direct energy subsidies
Foreign Islamists intent on turning Syria into an autocratic theocracy have swollen the ranks of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad and think they are waging a “holy war,” a French surgeon who treated fighters in Aleppo has said. Jacques Beres, co-founder of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, returned from Syria on Friday
Six blasts targeting Shiite mosques in the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least eight people and wounded 67 during prayers on Friday, police and hospital sources said. The attacks were the latest in a wave of attacks apparently launched to stoke sectarian tensions and challenge the country’s Shiite Muslim Prime Minister Nuri
Syria has accused Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi of “signing the death warrant” of a contact group trying to solve the nearly 18-month conflict by calling for regime change, official media reported on Friday. “Syria looks positively on any initiative seeking to contain the crisis and permit a return to normal life,” Deputy Foreign Minister
