Appearing on Erick Stakelbeck's The Watchman show this week, Arutz Sheva strategic analyst Mark Langfan predicted that once Iran achieves nuclear weapons capability, it will first attack the eastern Saudi oil fields. One Iranian EMP nuclear bomb can knock out the Saudi and American defenses in Saudi Arabia, said Langfan. An EMP, or electro-magnetic
On Monday deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was flown from his prison to stand trial for high treason and other suspected crimes. During course of this trial, alliances and connections could be revealed that incriminate foreign powers, in particular the US, that publicly claim to keep their hands clean of terrorist activity. As
Muhammad G'malizda, a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has been reported to have been killed in the Syrian Civil War, according to the State-backed Iranian Mehr news agency. G'mazlida was killed sometime over the last few days by "Wahhabi terrorists", the agency said, giving no more details. Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative
Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohammad Mursi, goes on trial on Monday under a security crackdown that has devastated his Muslim Brotherhood movement and raised concerns that the army-backed government is re-imposing a police state. A popular uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 raised hopes that Egyptians would break the military
Classes are overcrowded, curriculums out of date and facilities crumbling. In Egypt, frustrated parents have for decades relied on private tutors as overpopulation and government neglect have eviscerated public education. And with the Arab world’s most populous country plunged into turmoil since 2011, when a popular uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak, hopes for
Hezbollah is enlisting 15,000 fighters for what it is calling the “battle for Damascus,” Reshet Bet reports. The report is based on information from sources in the Syrian opposition. Hezbollah has been heavily involved in fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad as he battles opposition groups. Hezbollah recently claimed to have taken the
Hundreds of al-Qaeda recruits have found safe houses in southern Turkey before entering Syria to battle President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday. The hideouts are enabling al-Qaeda to send foreign jihadists to hijack the more “moderate” wing of the rebel Free Syrian Army, The Daily Telegraph reported, citing volunteers who help
In Egypt’s second city, medical student Ahmed Nabil lives in fear that the police may come and arrest him any day. As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is part of a movement facing an onslaught by the security forces which toppled Islamist President Mohammad Mursi in July. “These days we can be
Al-Qaeda terrorists are trying to get their hands on a weapons arsenal that was left behind by former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Qaddafi’s arsenal which remains in an abandoned desert warehouse in southern Libya, includes 4,000 surface-to-air missiles, each capable of downing a passenger jet,
After US cuts military aid to Cairo, Washington faces possibility that Egypt will turn to a rival country for aid: "Any inch Obama loses, another power will gain and we will not mind," Egyptian official says. A US decision to curtail military and economic aid to Egypt to promote democracy may ultimately backfire,
