A senior official in Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement wondered in a recent television interview why the Islamic State (ISIS) is not attacking Israel. The answer, according to Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein, is simple: the conduct of ISIS is "an extension of the Zionist enterprise". Al-Einein’s comments
Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to stop security coordination with Israel if the country continues to withhold the PA’s tax revenue, a senior PA official said Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP). Nabil Shaath said Abbas warned European leaders on a trip to Europe last week that Palestinian officials would
The father of American hostage Kayla Mueller, who died while held by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, on Sunday accused the Obama administration of putting its policy of not paying ransoms "in front of American lives", reported AFP. ISIS fighters claimed Mueller, who was seized in the Syrian city of Aleppo in August
One of the principal organizers of a “Peace Ring” event in Oslo is a “9/11 Denier” - someone who denies that the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 was committed not by Arab terrorists, but by Jews. Ali Chishti, one of eight organizers of the joint Jewish-Muslim event, which was supposed
The Islamic State jihadist group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages. The video shows 21 captives presented as 16 peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and three policemen from Kirkuk, a city about 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday slammed what he described as a campaign of "incitement and deception" by a number of Egyptian journalists against the Palestinian people in Gaza. According to the Ma’an news agency, Abu Zuhri denied reports that Palestinian Arabs have been traveling via tunnels into Egypt recently, denouncing what he
Despite the UN envoy's efforts to reach a political solution, the struggle for control by the Iranian backed Houthi Shi'ite militia is only escalating in Yemen after they captured the capital city of Sana'a and toppled the government. The UN is seeking a solution by which the temporary Houthi parliament will be recognized in
A senior figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Mujtabi Du Al-Nour, threatened on Saturday that Iran will destroy Tel Aviv in ten minutes if Israel "makes a mistake" and strikes the Islamic regime's nuclear facilities. Al-Nour, who is a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a talk with journalists responded to
An Egyptian court acquitted on Saturday an oil minister who served under ex-strongman Hosni Mubarak in a retrial after a 2012 conviction for selling Israel natural gas at below market price. The Cairo court acquitted former oil minister Sameh Fahmi along with five other petroleum officials. An appeals court ordered a retrial in
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Iran is hiding its intentions to produce nuclear weapons from the world. Netanyahu’s comments came in response to a new report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which says it has made little progress in its attempts to probe allegations that Iran worked on
