Two policemen were killed in a clash with a “terrorist” group west of the Tunisian capital on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “Two National Guard agents were killed and a third was wounded in a confrontation with an armed terrorist group” in the Beja region, 70 kilometers (45 miles) from Tunis, it said
Locked inside a 6th century church in a desert monastery are some of the jewels of early Christianity - ancient murals in vivid pinks, greens and reds depicting saints, angels and the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus, hidden for centuries under a blanket of black soot. Italian and Egyptian restorers are meticulously
The latest “Israeli bird spy” is an eagle, according to Hezbollah. On Wednesday, the Lebanon-based terror group reported on its television station Al-Manar that an eagle that was caught by recreational hunters in the town of Ashqout was planted with a spy transmitter, and a copper piece that was attached to its leg had
At least 41 people have been killed in renewed clashes between Kurdish militias and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists. The clashes took place in the oil-rich Hasake province in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory claimed that at least 29 Al Qaeda fighters and 12 Kurdish fighters had
How Jewish should Israel be? Why does the West recognize that democracy must be accommodated to Arabic culture world over, but not to Judaism in Israel? A thought provoking analysis based on Prof. Paul Eidelberg's "Jewish Statesmanship". PM Netanyahu has made it clearer than ever, that the PA must recognize “Israel as the national
Relations between the United States and Egypt are in deep-seated turmoil which could harm the entire Middle East, the Egyptian foreign minister said in remarks published on Wednesday. In an interview conducted by the state-owned daily newspaper al-Ahram, Nabil Fahmy said the extension of the period of instability in ties would “reflect negatively
A suicide bomber killed at least eight people including a provincial law minister after breaking into his home in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. Israr Ullah Gandapur, law minister for the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was meeting constituents in his home village of Kulachi when the bomber struck, provincial health minister Shaukat Yousafzai
Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov announced last week the assassination of Rastom Saleef one of the most extremist Islamic fighters, by elite Chechen forces. Saleef, known by his fighting name, Abu Muslim al Shishani, belonged to an extremist Islamic movement that had called for the establishment of a "Caucasus Emirate" as the basis for the
A last minute cross-party agreement between Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate has ended a partial government shutdown. The agreement, forged just one day ahead of the deadline to raise the country's $16.7 trillion debt limit, extends the federal borrowing limit until February 2014, and funds the government until this coming January.
The Lebanese army claims to have thwarted another car bomb attack on a Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in Beirut on Monday. Bomb disposal experts were summoned after a "suspicious" vehicle was seen in the Maamura area of the capital's southern suburbs. Upon closer inspection the vehicle turned out to be "rigged with explosives," according to
