Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
A deal to end a deadly week-long conflict between Hamas and Israel in and around the Gaza Strip was agreed on Wednesday, a senior Hamas official told AFP.
Today’s bus bombing in central Tel Aviv–the first in more than six years–injured twenty-three people and will likely rule out any cease fire in the Gaza conflict in the coming days. The location of the blast is significant: it occurred
(AP) Libya: Gunmen assassinate Benghazi security chiefTRIPOLI, LibyaLibya’s deputy interior minister says gunmen assassinated the security chief of the eastern city of Benghazi overnight. Omar al-Khadrawi says National Security Chief Col. Farag al-Dersi was shot dead while returning from work
Church of England bishops were to host an emergency session on Wednesday after the church narrowly rejected the appointment of women bishops, triggering turmoil and setting back efforts to modernise the mother church of millions of Anglicans worldwide. Bishops were
(AP) Israel says bomb blast hits bus in Tel AvivBy ARIEL DAVIDAssociated PressTEL AVIV, IsraelA bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding at least 10 people, Israeli officials said. The
Barack Obama spoke by phone with Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi thee times in the last 24 hours. Obama asked the man who regards Israel as his greatest enemy to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas. En route
A number of Arab columnists believe the rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel, are only being launched because Iran has incited Palestinians for ulterior reasons. These alleged reasons include a demonstration of Iranian influence, the pursuit of an improved position
This year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was the European Union. So far, only a minority of EU heads of state have agreed to attend the awards while a significant number have decided to give it a pass. The
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Purported Gaza-Israel truce deal fails to materialize Panicked Gazans run from their homes as Israel drops leaflets on Gaza City China is forced to back down diplomatically at an ASEAN meeting Purported Gaza-Israel truce
(AP) SAN JUAN, Puerto RicoFormer world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital Tuesday, and doctors said he was in serious condition but expected to survive.
Hamas is stripping some rockets of their warheads in order to increase range into Israel and cause more terror, according to Israelis on the receiving end. Reports indicate that in some situations Hamas is trading the opportunity to do actual
A Russian woman who converted to Islam from Christianity in 2007 walked into the home of a cleric three months ago and blew herself and seven others to bits. The woman, Aminat Kurbanova, had been raised a Christian and was
In a piece written for Arab News in October marking the 39th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Abdulateef Al Mulhim, a retired commodore from the Royal Saudi Navy, took a highly unorthodox position. that the real villains in the
Yesterday, the top leader of Hamas dared Israel on Monday to launch a ground invasion of Gaza while dismissing the idea of a cease-fire. Now, of course, Hamas has reversed itself, suggesting that a ceasefire has been agreed-to; their Baghdad
NATO is considering sending Patriot anti-missile batteries to Turkey to use along its border with Syria. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Turkey hasn’t asked for the defensive batteries, but if a request is made, NATO “will consider that as a matter
(AP) Downgraded France says it needs more timeBy SARAH DiLORENZOAP Business WriterPARIS France’s government has shrugged off the latest downgrade of its credit rating, saying Tuesday that it just needs time for reforms to the sluggish economy to take root.
The Syrian National Coalition, the leading opposition group in Syria to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has made a significant step towards legitimacy — recognition by the British government. This development comes a week after France became the first western nation to
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has asked NATO to provide Patriot Missile batteries that would include the specialty troops necessary to operate them. His stated concern is defending Turkey from a Syrian chemical missile attack. As of right now, the
Just a day after Hamas dared Israel to send a ground attack into the Gaza Strip, Hamas has said that Egypt had put together a ceasefire deal set to declare at 9:00 p.m. Israel time. Hamas has been hurt militarily
According to Iran, Gaza’s terrorists need more weaponry with which to fight Israel. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast won’t say whether Iran is already shipping heavy weaponry to Gaza. The current Hamas attacks on Israel have brought to the
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi said Israel’s “aggression” against Gaza will end on Tuesday and Cairo-mediated truce efforts will produce results within hours, the official MENA news agency reported. A Hamas official said chief Khaled Meshaal and his negotiators were currently
Israel has now set a Thursday deadline for the Egypt-brokered talks; if by that point no peace has been brokered, Israel’s ground troops are set to assault the Gaza Strip. “There is still no breakthrough and Egypt is working to
(AP) Poland thwarts terror attack on top leadersBy VANESSA GERAAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandA Polish university researcher driven by nationalistic and anti-Semitic hatred was arrested for planning to detonate a four-ton bomb in front of the Parliament building in Warsaw with the
An Iranian blogger who had the courage to post an open letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameini, accusing him of running a slaughterhouse against the Iranian people in the name of Islam, was arrested and tortured to death in
Remember the boasting of “Baghdad Bob” the Iraqi Information Minister (Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf) during the 2003 invasion of Iraq? He made statements like these: There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! My feelings – as usual – we will
