Thousands gather in Damascus for funeral of assassinated Syrian cleric (VIDEO)
Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Al-Bouti, his grandson, and 49 otherswere killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside a mosquewhere he was delivering a sermon on Thursday.The cleric was Imam of the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia beheads and crucifies convicted Yemeni murderer
Saudi authorities on Wednesday beheaded a Yemeni man and then crucified his body after he was convicted of murdering a Pakistani national, the kingdom’s interior ministry announced. “The Yemeni...
View ArticleThree divers arrested for attempting to cut submarine Internet cable
Three scuba divers have been arrested for attempting to cut an underwater Internet cable according to Egyptian military spokesperson Ahmed Mohammed Ali. The suspects were trying to sabotage the line...
View Article17 dead in Iraq after 4 Shiite mosques rocked by bombs
The wave of blasts erupted within an hour of each other across Baghdad, as well as in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, just as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers. In Kirkuk, a car bomb...
View ArticleSuicide bomber attack kills 11 near U.S. consulate in Pakistan
A suicide bomb blast near the U.S. consulate in Pakistan’s Peshawar killed 11 people and injured another 22, Friday, police said. According to the local media reports quoting witnesses, a suicide...
View ArticleEgyptian satirist interrogated for criticizing Mohammed Morsi
CAIRO (AP) — A popular television satirist known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart appeared Sunday before prosecutors for interrogation after an arrest warrant was issued against him for allegedly insulting...
View ArticleFive dead in Muslim-Christian clashes near Cairo – reports
A brawl between two rival communities left four Coptic Christians dead as well as one Muslim in al-Khusus, northeast of Cairo, reported Reuters.Sources said that the violence was sparked on Friday...
View Article’Taleban er knækket’
Ifølge Helmands nye guvernør Mohammed Naeem Baluch er sikkerheden i provinsen blevet kraftigt forbedret. Regeringen har nu kontrol over 80-90 procent af Helmand, hævder han. Og hvad tolkene angår, kan...
View ArticleCar bomb explodes outside French embassy in Tripoli injuring two
A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in...
View ArticleOver 50 killed in deadliest Iraqi Sunni clashes for months
Tuesday’s unrest has become the deadliest in Iraq since December, when thousands of Sunni Muslims started protesting against Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki accusing his government of...
View ArticleAt least 23 killed as Iraqi forces raid Sunni camp
Conflicting reports on the death toll have emerged, but they confirm that both the government forces and the protesters saw casualties. Three security officers and 20 demonstrators were killed,...
View ArticleDeath toll in Bangladesh factory collapse eclipses 300
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled...
View ArticleAdam Lanza vs. the knockoff jihadis
Leave it to Joe Biden – or his speechwriters – to come up with the best description yet of Tamarlan and Dzohkhar Tsarnaev: “knockoff jihadis.” Knockoffs are, of course, cheap imitations, not the real...
View Article19-årig fængslet for skuddrab på Frederiksberg
En dommer har valgt at varetægtsfængsle en 19-årig mand for drabet på Zaid Mohammed al-Kayssi i februar. Visit source - 19-årig fængslet for skuddrab på Frederiksberg
View ArticleDeadly anti-blasphemy protests in Bangladesh prompt national shutdown
The strike, effective Wednesday is organized by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Islamist allies in protest of “mass killing” during the clashes on Sunday and Monday when police...
View ArticleJerusalem’s Grand Mufti detained for questioning
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View ArticleIsrael contests France TV over Palestinian boy’s death
|| Related Israel approves controversial settlement buildings 18/12/2012 13:55 CET Palestinians mark ‘Nakba’ anniversary 15/05/2013 01:35 CET Tensions high on Jerusalem Day 08/05/2013 22:17 CET...
View ArticleUS government admits to killing four American citizens with drones
It has been widely reported but rarely acknowledged in Washington that three US citizens — Samir Khan, Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son — were executed in a September 2011 strike in Yemen. With...
View ArticleWhy the West has trouble understanding Iran’s political language
The previous 2009 elections came amid a large-scale opposition campaign to review the voting results – but that was before the Arab Spring, while the future elections have dovetailed with a crisis of...
View ArticleBenghazi clashes kill 6 soldiers amid warnings of imminent ‘bloodbath’
Violence erupted during Friday night and continued into the morning with witness reports of explosions and heavy gunfire throughout the city. “The clashes lasted from 2am (00:00 GMT) until 6am, but...
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