IDF soldiers found three mines Sunday that had been planted next to the Gaza security barrier. The mines were located during a routine security check and were destroyed in a controlled explosion; no injuries were reported.
Israeli forces killed a terrorist this morning who had been wanted for six years for murdering an Israeli policeman. They then razed the building in which he was hiding.
A suicide terrorist, assumed to be from Al-Qaeda, detonated himself near the convoy of the British ambassador to Yemen early Monday, but succeeded in killing only himself. British Ambassador to Yemen Tim Torlot was on his way to the embassy in Sanaa when the attack occurred.
Petra, the official news agency of the the Jordanian government, recently published a report accusing Israel of “Judaizing†Jerusalem and casting doubt on Jewish history in the Land of Israel. The report also referred to Israelis working in the Old City as “Israeli occupation forces.â€
There are no Sharia courts.. in the narrow sense of the word. But the big brouhaha about Sharia courts in the UK, for example, concerned using Sharia law in the process of arbitration. As this study shows, such arbitration councils exist in the Netherlands.
Young Arab women wait in an upmarket medical clinic for an operation that will not only change their lives, but quite possibly save it. Yet the operation is a matter of choice and not necessity. It costs about 2,000 euros (£1,700) and carries very little risk.
Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls have fallen ill in recent days after reporting a strange odor in their classrooms in northern Afghanistan, prompting an investigation into whether they were targeted by militants who oppose education for girls or victims of mass hysteria.
A leading Iranian cleric has told the faithful they must pray and give to the poor to avoid the earthquakes that have often ravaged the country, a Tehran daily reported on Saturday.
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During World War II Nazi Germany tried to rally support in the Arab world, often trying to find common ground in anti-Semitism. The extent of the Nazi propaganda in Arabic has been revealed in a book titled Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World.