The U.S. embassy in Kenya on Saturday warned of the threat of an imminent attack on Mombasa and urged nationals to shun the country’s second city. “This is to alert all U.S. citizens in Kenya, or planning to travel to Kenya in the near future, that the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has received information
Gaza terrorists continued to fire on Israel over the Sabbath. The Iron Dome rocket defense system successfully shot down 5 rockets, but more than 20 hit southern communities. One rocket hit a factory in the Sha’ar Hanegev region. A worker was moderately wounded. Another rocket hit a school in Sderot, causing damage to
Hamas leaders in Gaza announced Saturday that a young child had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. The child was identified as Ali Muataz al-Shawaf, 4. Pictures of the child’s bloody body were published in Palestinian Authority media outlets. However, IDF officials later revealed the story as a lie. There was no Israeli
A video showing more than a dozen bloodied corpses emerged in Syria on Friday, in what the government said was a "massacre" by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo. The Associated Press reported that some of the bodies in the video were seen piled on top of each other and in military uniforms.
The Islamic Jihad terror movement claimed on Friday that it held its fire during recent Israeli raids on Gaza because the attacks were limited in scale, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported on Friday. The IAF launched a series of airstrikes in response to continuous rocket attacks on southern Israel this week. One attack
A leader of the ruling Hamas said Saturday the militant group had agreed to try anew an Egypt-brokered ceasefire with Israel, after six days of bloodshed in and around the Gaza Strip. Hamas and “the Palestinian resistance factions will respect the truce as long as the (forces) of the occupation do the same and
Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza continued on Friday evening to violate a ‘ceasefire’ that was declared on Wednesday and fired rockets into southern Israel. Three rockets were fired from Gaza shortly before 11:00 p.m. local time. Two of them exploded in the Eshkol Regional Council and the third exploded in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council.
As evidence mounts of Islamic militant forces among the Syrian opposition, senior U.S. and European officials are increasingly alarmed by the prospect of sophisticated weapons falling into the hands of rebel groups that may be dangerous to Western interests, including al-Qaeda. In an interview with Reuters, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta articulated U.S. worries
Egyptians packed Tahrir Square in Cairo through the night on Saturday, waving flags and chanting for the end of military rule as they waited to know the name of the first president they have been free to choose. After a week of drama, in which the Muslim Brotherhood’s hopes of victory in the presidential
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi warned on Friday against any tampering with the election results, after a win was also claimed by former premier Ahmed Shafiq. The Muslim Brotherhood said Mursi had won based on the official tallies of judges overseeing polling stations. “The expected result is known to everyone,”
