A day after a Hamas official called on terrorists to kidnap IDF soldiers in order to force Israel to release their fellow terrorists from Israeli prisons, another Hamas official called on PA Arabs on Tuesday to start an intifada (violent uprising). The official, Izzat al-Rishq, said in a statement he released, “Our Palestinian people
Egypt’s main opposition National Salvation Front announced on Tuesday that it will boycott parliamentary elections set to start on April 22, saying there must first be a law guaranteeing a free and fair vote. The National Salvation Front, an umbrella alliance of liberal and leftist groups, made the decision at a meeting in Cairo,
Egypt will send a new economic plan needed to secure a lifeline from the International Monetary Fund to parliament within two days after releasing a summary that makes no mention of cutting subsidies and other politically-sensitive measures. Cairo is trying to secure a $4.8 billion IMF loan to shore up its finances as the
Egyptian archeologists have condemned the Paris statue of Jean François Champollion, the French archaeologist who deciphered hieroglyphics, as “derogatory” and “shameful.” The reason is that Champollion appears on the statue standing with his left foot on a Pharaonic head. The statue was carved in 1875 by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and is located in the
At least 19 foreign tourists were killed on Tueday as their hot air balloon crashed near the city of Luxor. Nine people from Hong Kong are feared to be among the 19 after a hot air balloon exploded over Egypt’s ancient temple city of Luxor on Tuesday, the general manager of a tour operator
A Texas school has come under fire for reportedly inviting female students to dress in abayas and refer to Islamist extremists as “freedom fighters.” State Senator Dan Patrick told Fox news that he is disturbed by Facebook photos, posted by one of the students, which showed pupils dressed in Islamic garb in a geography
The jihadist Al-Nusra Front on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack earlier this month on an army factory in the central Syrian province of Hama that reportedly killed at least 60 people. "Thank God, your brothers in Al-Nusra Front... carried out a martyrdom (suicide) operation that targeted an army factory in the town
A rocket exploded in southern Israel on Tuesday in the first such attack by militants in the Hamas Islamist ruled Gaza Strip since a truce ended a week of cross-border fighting in November, Israeli police said. The rocket caused some damage to a road near the city of Ashkelon but no injuries, police spokesman
MK Orit Strook (Bayit Yehudi) said Monday that security forces should not have closed off a section of Highway 60 in order to allow Jaradat's funeral to pass through it. The funeral was accompanied by armed Palestinian Authority forces and had the trappings of a military funeral. "The Minister of Defense must
It is “game over” for Islamist rule in Egypt, former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq told Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview on Monday. “Religious rule is no longer viable in Egypt,” he said. “It’s not even religious rule. What’s happening has no ties with religion. This is a mask.” Islamist rule will last
