Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated Monday that the cargo Ankara confiscated from an intercepted Syrian plane contained weapons, shrugging off Russian claims that the plane carried legal radar equipment. “It is beyond a
More than two million voters have registered for Jordan’s parliamentary elections due to take place by the end of 2012, the independent electoral commission announced on Monday. “2.27 million voters registered, or 70 percent of the elec
A Palestinian bid to upgrade its U.N. status to a sovereign country would jeopardize the peace process with Israel and make it difficult to get the two sides to return to talks on a two-state solution, the United States said on Monday. But the diplomatic
قال بشير الكبتي، المسؤول العام لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين في ليبيا، إن الجماعة لها خصوصيتها عن باقي الأقطار العربية، حيث لم نقتبس أو نستورد تج
Iran is providing Hezbollah militants with financing, training and sophisticated weaponry in an attempt to transform Lebanon into an “outpost for terror,” Israel’s U.N. ambassador said on Monday. Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah cla
Egypt’s public prosecutor has ordered an investigation into violence that broke out last Friday between Islamist and liberal demonstrators, including accusations against top-ranking officials in the Muslim Brotherhood, the state news agency said. Oppon
Foreign ministers agree on asset freezing and travel ban on 34 additional entities in oil, gas and financial sectors.
Boualem Bekai, a key al-Qaeda militant in North Africa, has died in an army ambush near the northern city of Tizi Ouzou, Algerian officials say.