Turkey on Thursday recalled its envoy to Luxembourg to Ankara for consultations, after that country’s parliament recognized the mass killings of Armenians in World War I as genocide, AFP reported. The recall of the envoy is the latest such move by Ankara after it withdrew its ambassadors to the Vatican and Austria over the
No less than 600 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorists have fled the Saudi-led strikes and Houthi menace in Yemen and relocated to northern Somalia, US officials revealed on Tuesday as reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Ethiopia let the Somali government know about the migration according to the officials, with the
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed Tuesday his terrorist group would oust Sunni rebels from a region on the border with Syria, but declined to say when the assault might happen. In a televised address, the Shia Islamist group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said rebel forces in the mountainous border area posed an unacceptable
A move to consider suspending Israel from world soccer will be put to FIFA's 209 member federations just before they elect their president this month, The Associated Press reported Monday. FIFA published an agenda for its election congress on May 29, including a late proposal by Palestinian Arab officials to suspend Israel. The
Islamist rebels led by Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate launched a preemptive strike Monday on pro-regime forces in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border, setting off fierce clashes, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al Nusra Front and other groups attacked positions belonging to the regime and Lebanon's Hezbollah, which
Hamas has been accused of torturing members of a Salafist group in Gaza who are being held in jail, while monitoring and cracking down on other supporters of the group throughout its stronghold. A statement by the Salafist Trend group on Saturday threatened Hamas that if it didn't release the members being tortured in
The "refugee" department of the Hamas terrorist movement will on Tuesday at 5 p.m. hold a massive rally marking 67 years to the "Nakba" - the "catastrophe" of the establishment of modern Israel, and the inability of the Arab countries to destroy the fledgling renascent Jewish state. The massive rally is to be held
An Egyptian prosecutor said Sunday he referred 40 people to trial on charges of belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) and planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt, reports The Associated Press (AP). The announcement marks the first time people in Egypt's Nile Delta have been accused of belonging to the group, which
The Islamic Jihad terrorist group is accusing the Palestinian Authority (PA) of arresting and harassing its members in the PA-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria. In a statement quoted by the Ma’an news agency, the group said that PA security forces had arrested Islamic Jihad members in Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, and Hevron governorates.
(AFP) Lebanon's land exports to Gulf markets have been choked off, leaving millions of dollars in goods stranded after the closure of a vital crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border last month. The Nasib border point was the last remaining gateway for Lebanese truck drivers transporting agricultural and industrial products to Iraq and Gulf
