Syria shot down a Turkish military fighter jet in the eastern Mediterranean on Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s office said in a statement, amid earlier ambiguity over whether the plane had been downed by Syrian defense forces or had crashed. “As a result of information obtained from the evaluation of our concerned institutions
Egypt’s ruling military warned on Friday it would “deal firmly” with any attempt to harm the public interest, and blamed political divisions on the release of unofficial presidential poll results by candidates. The statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces was read out on state television, as thousands of people packed Cairo’s
IAF aircraft targeted a terrorist squad that was preparing to fire a rocket at Israel from central Gaza on Friday afternoon, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. According to the announcement, a hit was identified. The IDF Spokesperson noted that during the past week over 130 rockets hit Israel. “The IDF will not tolerate
Ashkelon Councilor Shimon Cohen told Arutz Sheva Friday that the decision to shut down all educational facilities in the city was the responsible one to make. "The rocket fire tonight shattered the quiet," he said. "At 2:00 a.m. we awoke to sirens. The rockets fell partly in open areas, and also in a large
Public frustration has deepened in Egypt after ruling generals acted to retain sweeping powers over the nation, yet a bigger worry for many exhausted Egyptians is that a new political crisis raises the prospect of fresh turmoil on their streets. A troubled transition beset by political bickering and often bloodshed has worn down a
Ahmed Shafiq, one of the two candidates for president of Egypt, repeated on Thursday his claim of victory in weekend runoff elections, The Associated Press reported. Shafiq, who was deposed President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, made the claim in a news conference, his first one since the runoff. AP reported that Shafiq
Tunisian authorities have detained the court officer who denounced an art exhibition as offensive to Islam last week and triggered a wave of riots by hardline Islamists, the official TAP news agency said. Mohamed Ali Bouaziz was arrested late Tuesday on charges of disrupting public order, the agency said, quoting a justice ministry official.
Heightened tensions between Egypt’s ruling military and the Muslim Brotherhood have mounted on Thursday, after a delay in announcing the winner of a presidential poll claimed by the Islamists and reported vote-count errors. The delay placed focus on the Brotherhood fears of a “soft coup” by the ruling military, which has already disbanded the
One of the results of the revolution in Egypt,perhaps unforeseen by Egyptians who sought to get rid of Hosni Mubarak's government, was the economic effects of the rebellion. They're all aware of it now, though; according to economists in the U.S. and Europe, Egypt's economy has basically been paralyzed for the past year and a
Despite a declaration of a ceasefire by Hamas on Wednesday night, rockets continued to hit Israeli targets. Five more rockets hit the western Negev early Thursday morning. All the rockets exploded in open areas of the Eshkol Regionl Council, with no damage or injuries reported. On Wednesday, some 70 rockets were fired by Gaza Arab
