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Bomb blasts hit Cairo‬ police HQ and metro station, 5 dead

Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:14:36

There have been two bomb explosions in the Egyptian capital Cairo, first near the city's police headquarters and second near a metro station, officials say.

Syria's Assad not ready to go yet: Kerry

Fri Jan 24, 2014 09:43:36

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is not ready to step down yet to make way for a transition government, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.

Syria forces repel attack, kill some 140 militants

Fri Jan 24, 2014 08:23:51

Syrian security forces have repelled an attack on a monastery in a city north of the capital Damascus, killing nearly 140 militants.

Hezbollah, Army on high alert in Beirut over bomb rumors

Fri Jan 24, 2014 08:01:44

Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army have been on high alert after rumors circulated that two suicide bombers were planning to attack Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Ex-ISIL man reveals torture in name of ‘prison jihad’

Thu Jan 23, 2014 23:54:51

A former member of the al-Qaeda-linked group so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who has defected from the terrorist organization, has unveiled his criminal activities as an ISIL-commissioned prison warden and ordered to lash all male and female inmates under the label of “prison jihad.”

AI slams Egypt for crushing dissent, human rights

Thu Jan 23, 2014 22:35:38

Amnesty International has slammed Egypt's military-led authorities for using an “unprecedented scale” of violence against protesters since the ouster of the nation’s first freely-elected president, Mohamed Morsi.

'Israeli Gaza raid covered by Arab silence, US backing'

Thu Jan 23, 2014 21:49:46

Hamas leader Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil has blamed “Arab silence” and US support for the recent aerial attack by the Israeli regime forces on the besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Nearly 1,400 killed in militant infighting in Syria

Thu Jan 23, 2014 20:47:37

Nearly 1,400 foreign-backed insurgent have perished in Syria since the infighting among rival militant gangs fighting against the Syrian government erupted in the Arab country.

Outside forces seek Palestinian-Hezbollah conflict

Thu Jan 23, 2014 20:18:28

It isn’t just the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine six decades after the Nakba; one can sense the carnivorous drooling from Tel Aviv to Amman, from Riyadh and the Gulf Kingdoms all the way to Washington DC and beyond—drooling and salivation over their project to promote tensions between the Palestinian Resistance and what is in some respects its historic offspring—Hezbollah.

Abdullah Azzam Brigades terrorist killed in Bekaa

Thu Jan 23, 2014 19:41:27

A member of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group calling itself Abdullah Azzam Brigades has been killed during an armed clash in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley.

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