Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi’s surprise dawn media appearance in which he claimed victory in Egypt’s first free election was seen as a “preemptive maneuver” to thwart possible vote rigging by the election commission backed by the ruling generals. The vast and well-organized network of the Muslim Brotherhood began releasing instant results of
Iran, Russia, China and Syria are planning to hold the largest war games exercise in the Middle East in less than a month, Iran’s Fars media reported Tuesday. Citing “informed sources,” the report said that 90,000 soldiers from the four countries are to take part. The massive war games drill will include air
The Israel Air Force struck Gaza a second time Monday evening, killing at least two terrorists in the northern town of Beit Hanoun. The targeted terrorists were engaged in launching a rocket attack at civilians in southern Israel at the time they were attacked, the IDF Spokesperson's Office said in a statement. The
Speaking at a Likud faction meeting Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu redoubled his commitment to completing a fence on Israel's southern border. In the wake of an attack by terrorists earlier Monday against workers who were building the fence, Netanyahu said that Israel would not be moved from its plans to finish the fence,
A court in Addis Ababa Monday found an Ethiopian security officer working for the U.N. and charged with having links to a banned armed group guilty of “participating in a terrorist organization.” “The defendant has not convinced us that he did not commit a crime... he’s guilty,” judge Mulugeta Kidane said. Abdurahman Sheikh
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday that there has been a "serious escalation" in the security situation along the Sinai border and that the lack of Egyptian security control in Sinai was "worrisome." "We are still under a terror attack in the south," Barak told reporters during his meeting with the Polish defense minister.
The Muslim Brotherhood declared early Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt's presidential election. The Associated Press reported that at a pre-dawn press conference declaring their win, officials from the fundamentalist group, banned for decades and repeatedly subjected to crackdowns under former President Hosni Mubarak's rule, were ebullient and smiling. Final official
Official projections show the conservative New Democracy party as coming in first with about 130 of Parliament's 300 seats, ahead of the anti-bailout radical left Syriza party, the Huffington Post wrote Sunday. The head of the socialist PASOK party, which is projected to come in third in this critical election, has proposed that a
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said Sunday that the peace process with Israel is "clinically dead" just days before PA negotiator Saeb Erakat meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "The peace process is clinically dead and the Israeli side is definitely the one responsible," Abbas said at a conference in
Al-Qaeda’s leader has urged Egypt to cancel its peace treaty with Israel and to establish Islamic rule, The Associated Press (AP) reported. He said the goal is to stop Israel from turning Jerusalem into a Jewish city. Ayman al-Zawahri issued his 10th message to Egypt since taking over al-Qaeda’s leadership after founder Osama
