King Abdullah on Thursday said the West should realise that in the absence of a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the world is headed towards decades of more violence and extremism.
Read More »Lebanon camp under heavy shelling
The Lebanese army has continued shelling Fatah al-Islam positions in a refugee camp near Triopli as Katyusha rockets were fired at villages nearby.
Read More »Mosque protests erupt in Pakistan
Thousands have protested across Pakistan against a government raid on Islamabad’s Red Mosque that left more than 100 dead. Â
Read More »Islamists fire rockets in Lebanon camp battle
Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday, escalating their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
Read More »Official: Guards rob Iraqi bank, net $500,000
London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, which owns a 70 percent stake in Dar Es Salaam bank, said on Wednesday that less than $1 million in cash was stolen in a raid on a Dar Es Salaam branch in Baghdad.
Read More »Bush to give ‘mixed’ Iraq report
The White House is expected to present to Congress an interim report on the situation in Iraq, assessing the results of the major US troop “surge”.
Read More »Egypt and the Zionist plan of division
In the first instalment of what I intended would be a short series of articles, I wrote that Oded Yinon’s 1982 study entitled “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” is the most detailed account so far of the Zionist mindset; how it works and how it aspires to manage …
Read More »Egypt’s Copts says Catholic primacy claim ‘fans tensions’
Egypt’s Coptic Church on Wednesday rejected the Roman Catholic Church’s claim to be “the one true Church of Christ,” saying such provocative declarations unnecessarily stirred up tensions.
Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan says no Iraqi incursion before elections
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says authorisation of a military incursion into northern Iraq is not on the immediate agenda, but he did not rule it out after the July 22nd general elections.
Read More »Libyan Supreme Court upholds Bulgarian medics’ death sentences
The Libyan Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 11th) upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who has been given Bulgarian citizenship.
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