Jordan has foiled a “terrorist plot” and arrested 11 Al-Qaeda suspects who planned to carry out suicide attacks against shopping malls and diplomats, Petra news agency reported on Sunday. “The General Intelligence Department has foiled a terrorist plot against national security, by an 11-member terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda’s ideology,” it said. The
New evidence implicating militias in executions after ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi was captured and killed in Sirte last October 20 raises fresh questions over his death, a watchdog said on Wednesday. “The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Qaddafi’s convoy in Sirte,” his home town, said
The majority of weapons secretly shipped to Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar go to hardline Islamic rebel groups rather than more secular organizations favored by the West, The New York Times reported Monday. Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said this was the conclusion reached in classified reports presented to President
Iran has suffered an embarrassing security setback after a cameraman, who accompanied President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York for the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly defected and applied for asylum, according to a report published by the Telegraph on Monday. It is likely that Hassan Gol Khanban has planned his defection in
Azerbaijan has looked into the possibility of assisting Israel with a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a report Sunday by Reuters reveals. The report, published by correspondent Thomas Grove, is based on "local officials with extensive knowledge of Azerbaijan’s military policy." According to these sources, Azeri authorities have, along with Israel, looked into how
Hizbullah has increased the size and scope of its assistance to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as he fights to retain his position as leader of Syria in the face of a wide-ranging rebellion. According to a report in Thursday's Washington Post, Hizbullah has sent special advisors to Syria in order to assist
More than two weeks after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, FBI agents have still not been granted access to investigate the crime scene, sources said. "They've gotten as far as Tripoli now, but they've never gotten to
Barack Obama's address at the UN clearly had November 6 in mind and particularly the Republican attempt to challenge Obama's reputation on national security as a result of recent events in the Middle East. Obama defended free speech as a value enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, but also as a value that would serve
A new report says Iran is being hard hit by international sanctions, but the evidence indicates its nuclear development activities are galloping ahead. The report, leaked Thursday allegedly by Israel's Foreign Ministry indicates the Islamic Republic is being hard hit by international economic sanctions. Oil exports from Iran have declined by 50 percent over
Israel has consented to an Egyptian request to allow Egyptian Air Force reconnaissance planes to patrol the skies along the border with Israel, writes Yisrael Hayom Tuesday, quoting an unnamed senior security source in Cairo. The newspaper notes, however, that the report has received no corroboration from any official source in Cairo. Jerusalem
