The United States has played down Saturday’s reports that Iran was sending warships to its maritime borders. A U.S. defense official, speaking to the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity, cast doubt on any claims that the Iranian ships were approaching U.S. maritime borders. That same official added, however, that "ships are
Egypt's army reported on Saturday that it killed 16 Islamist terrorists in Sinai near the border with Gaza the day before. The liquidation of the 16 terrorists was conducted by an Egyptian airstrike in an area south of Sheikh Zuweid on Friday evening, according to the army's statement. The region has seen heightened violence;
US Secretary of State John Kerry revealed new details about the secretive Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace talks he is pushing through. According to Kerry, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opposes the idea that NATO forces will secure Israel's borders in the event of a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. That idea was raised by PA
The Iranian navy is deploying a "military fleet" to US maritime borders, according to a senior military official in Iran. "The Iranian Army's naval fleets have already started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via the waters near South Africa," announced Afshin Rezayee Haddad, the Commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet Admiral, on Saturday.
Amid the ongoing nuclear talks to convince the West of its "peaceful" nuclear designs, in a move Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei revealed in January is an Islamic "taqiyya" deceptive tactic, Iran continues to roll out military advances and threats. The official site of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards warned the US that its warships
The speaker of Iran’s parliament criticized Israel and the United States during a ceremony in honor of Tunisia’s new constitution on Friday, causing the American delegation to walk out of the celebrations, Reuters reports. Addressing the ceremony at the National Assembly in Tunis, Ali Larijani referred to Israel as a "cancer" in the region.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed his appreciation towards his Secretary of State’s peace efforts in the Middle East. Speaking at an interfaith breakfast in Washington, D.C., Obama said, “I want to take this opportunity to thank Secretary Kerry for his extraordinary passion and principled diplomacy that he’s brought to the cause of
Widespread looting in South Sudan’s strategic towns has been reported by the United Nations mission in the country, officials said Friday. Peacekeepers found that the key town of Bor, which has changed hands several times in the conflict between government forces and rebels, had been looted, while the northeastern oil town of Malakal was
Deputy Religions Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan visited Thursday at the “Mother's Vigil” tent that the Women in Green movement has set up near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, and joined the protesters in demanding the application of Israeli sovereignty in the mountainous Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. "We demand that Israeli
A Cairo court is to hold a “secret session” in the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, and his former top aides on Saturday. Mubarak is in court for alleged incitement to kill protesters, and is to also stand trial this month on embezzlement charges, along with former
