Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said on Thursday that Israel is preparing for the possibility of military action in Syria, in case its chemical weapons were to end up in the hands of Hizbullah or other terrorist organizations in the region. Yatom spoke to the British Sky News, which reported that Israel is deeply
“President Mursi made clear he understands the success of his presidency and Egypt’s transition depends on building consensus across Egypt’s political spectrum; to work on a new constitution’ to protect civil society; to draft a new constitution that will be respected by all and to assert the full authority of the presidency,” Clinton said.
Khaled Meshaal, the politburo chief of Hamas, on Saturday attended the opening of the first conference of Morocco’s ruling Party of Justice and Development (PJD) since the moderate Islamists won November polls. “Khaled Meshaal arrived yesterday evening in Rabat and is participating in the opening of our party conference,” Abdelaali Hamiddine, a party leader,
The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan held a meeting at a hotel in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Adaba on Saturday, their first such talks since the two countries came close to war in April over a border dispute and oil revenues. Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir met today
The mother of Mohammed Bouazizi, the street vendor whose self-immolation sparked a mass uprising in Tunisia that touched off the Arab Spring, has been remanded in custody for insulting an official, the justice ministry said on Saturday. Manoubia Bouazizi, 60, was arrested on Friday after an altercation with a judge in a court in
Cyprus authorities have detained a man on suspicion of being involved in planning a terrorist attack on the east Mediterranean island, a police spokesman said Friday. The Associated Press quoted spokesman Andreas Angelides as having said that police have “an individual in custody on possible charges pertaining to terrorism laws.” Angelides declined to
Saudi Arabia welcomed with open arms the first Egyptian president elected after the January 25 revolution when he visited Jeddah on Wednesday, the Saudi Crown Prince and Minister of Defense, Salman bin Abdul Aziz, was the first to greet President Mohammed Mursi who was accompanied by a delegation of senior officials. Mursi’s visit to
A former general of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards has accused the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of having blood on his hands over the brutal crackdown on the opposition. The British Guardian reported on Thursday that the former general described government claims that Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful as a “sheer lie.”
Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Friday that he is convinced the new Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, will protect Gaza against Israeli aggression. Haniyeh added that he is convinced that Morsi will open the borders between Gaza and Egypt and will remove the blockade. Channel 10 News quoted Haniyeh, who
Syria has begun moving parts of its vast arsenal of chemical weapons out of storage facilities, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal. The country has vast undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide, according to the report. American officials have different opinions regarding the logic behind the decision to move
