U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday issued a “strong warning” to the regime of Bashar al-Assad over the potential use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people. “This is a red line for the United States,” Clinton said after meeting Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. “Once again we issue a very strong warning to the Assad regime that their be ...
Tunisia’s government and main trade union reached a deal on Saturday aimed at satisfying demands by demonstrators in the impoverished governorate of Siliana angry over poor living conditions. One of the demands was for the resignation of regional Governor Ahmed Ezzine Mahjoubi. The deal envisages sidelining, but not removing him, and putting his deputy in charge. “The deputy of the gov ...
Kuwaitis began casting ballots on Saturday to elect the second parliament in 10 months amid a boycott by the opposition in protest against the amendment of the electoral law. At the polling center in Salwa, 15 km (10 miles) south of the capital Kuwait City, only a few voters showed up among more than 4,600 eligible voters registered at the center. “I am voting because I care for my country. ...
Reuters - Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party, speaks to supporters in Cité Fouchana in Tunis October 21, 2012. (Reuters) The leader of the Tunisian Islamist party that rose to power after the first Arab Spring uprising last year said this week that Islamist movements would eventually emerge triumphant throughout the Arab world after a difficult tr ...
Britain is prepared to back a key vote recognizing Palestinian statehood at the United Nations on Thursday, but only if Palestinians agree to re-enter peace talks with Israel, British newspapers reported. Foreign Secretary William Hague will reportedly tell members of the British parliament that the UK is “willing to vote in favor of Palestinians having non-member status at the United Nation ...
A senior member of Egypt’s former militant Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya has warned that liberal politicians and intellectuals who oppose President Mohammed Mursi’s latest constitutional declaration could face a campaign of targeted assassinations starting from December. Nageh Ibrahim, the ideologue of the Gamaa al-Islamiya, which took up arms against ousted president Hosni Mubar ...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said he was “fully confident” ahead of a fresh attempt to seek upgraded Palestinian status at the United Nations on Nov. 29. “We are going to the U.N. fully confident in our steps. We will have our rights because you are with us,” he told a crowd of around 1,000 people demonstrating support for the bid to upgrade the Palestinian ...
The former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's body is to be exhumed on Tuesday, Palestinian officials say. His tomb in in Ramallah will be opened so that his remains can be tested to find out whether his death in Paris in 2004 was caused by poisoning. Arafat's medical records, which were obtained by Al Jazeera in an exclusive investigation say that he had suffered a stroke, but France began a murd ...
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces near the Gaza border on Friday, the first casualty since the two sides agreed a truce ending their week-long conflict, Palestinian medical sources said. An Israeli army spokeswoman could not confirm the incident, saying only that “disturbances” had broken out on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border early on Friday, prompting Israeli sold ...
The Egyptian Military Academy accepting a large number of Islamist students sounded the alarm that there was favoritism and that the Muslim Brotherhood was changing the enrollment criteria. While the academy’s head, Major General Essmat Mourad, admitted to accepting a big influx of students hailing from Islamist backgrounds, he said there was no change in the enrollment criteria, the Egyptia ...
