The number of drug users in Egypt has rapidly increased since the revolution, says the head of a drug addiction organization. Egypt’s economic and social problems have hit the Nile Delta town of Faqous hard and some are turning to drugs in order to cope. A drug user from the town, who only
Israel bombed a weapons shipment headed for Hizbullah on Friday, an Israeli source confirmed Saturday. The source spoke after American media outlets reported the strike. Israel has not officially commented on the alleged strike. A diplomatic source in Lebanon told the AFP news agency that the operation destroyed surface-to-air missiles recently delivered by
U.S. President Barack Obama is gearing up to send lethal weapons to the Syrian opposition, according to senior administration officials speaking to The Washington Post on Wednesday. The officials said Obama was also tightening ties with allies seeking the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the U.S. would be taking a “more aggressive”
Rich Gulf nationals go to Hawamidiyya, especially during the summer, to contract marriages for a definite period of time in return for a meager amount of money, some of which goes to the broker. The rest goes to the family of a young woman, often a virgin under 18 years of age, so that a
The Academic College in Tzfat held a conference Monday on the subject, “The borders of democracies’ war on terrorism.” Faculty member and terrorism expert Shimon Carmi explained to Arutz Sheva that the way society reacts to terrorism affects the society itself, first and foremost. “If we were to decide to ignore all the
The mosque attended by the two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings “has a curriculum that radicalizes people,” according to the interfaith group Americans for Peace and Tolerance. The mosque has reportedly been associated with other suspected terrorists and is affiliated with the controversial Muslim American Society, APT says. Among the former attendees
British tabloid newspaper The Mirror says that police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack, and were part of a larger "sleeper cell." This report is not corroborated by other news outlets and its veracity cannot be ascertained. The Mirror quotes a source close to the investigation
Senior Egyptian army doctors were ordered to operate without anesthetic on wounded protesters at a military hospital in Cairo during protests against military rule, according to an investigation commissioned by President Mohammed Morsi. The report into military and police malpractice since 2011, excerpts of which were presented in the British Guardian on Thursday, also
Hamas, a former ally of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, is now training the rebel Free Syrian Army in eastern Damascus, according to a report Friday in the British Times. Diplomatic sources told the newspaper that members of Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades were training FSA units in the rebel-held neighborhoods of Yalda, Jaramana and Babbila.
In a shocking display that does not bode well for the Catholic Church and its stance on defending the multitudes of Christians currently being persecuted in Islamic countries, Magdi Christiano Allam, a prominent covert from Islam to Christianity, has left the Catholicism. He reasoned that he could not abide the church’s “weakness” and policy of
