Six arrested in London anti-terror operation
Five men and a woman suspected of terrorism offences have been arrested in London as part of an intelligence-led investigation involving MI5. One of the six, who are aged between 18 and 30, was...
Category: Islam
Where Are the Middle East’s Revolutions Heading?
One-and-a-half years after the start of the Arab Spring, Islamists have taken power in some countries, Gulf rulers are suppressing dissent with cash and Syria is descending into civil war. The Arab revolutions are...
Egypt’s President-elect presses for release of blind sheik: WTC terrorist
Egypt’s new government is sparking growing outrage in the U.S. for its attempts to win the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center....
Iran test-fires missiles over threats of attack
(Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel in response to threats of military action against the country, Iranian media reported. Israel says it could attack Iran if...
Norwegian trained by al Qaeda to blow up U.S. plane
(multimedia) U.S. intelligence sources say al Qaeda has trained a Norwegian man to blow up an American airliner this summer. John Miller speaks to the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts about the hunt to find...
Timbuktu’s Sidi Yahia mosque ‘attacked by Mali militants’
Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say. Armed men broke down the door of the 15th-Century Sidi Yahia mosque, a resident...
Jordan king pushes parliament to widen election law
(Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah instructed parliament on Thursday to reconvene next month to amend a controversial election law that has provoked Islamist disaffection and a potential boycott of polls that could deal a...
Rep. Allen West on shocking security scare
“If you go back to the 1991 exploratory memorandum that was found just right across the Potomac here in northern Virginia, it was a Muslim brotherhood document that really talked about their goals and objectives for the United States of America....
Africa’s Islamist militants ‘co-ordinate efforts’
Three of Africa’s largest militant Islamist groups are trying to co-ordinate their efforts, the head of the US Africa Command has warned. Gen Carter Ham said in particular North African al-Qaeda in the Islamic...
Mohamed Morsi to pick woman and Christian as Egypt’s vice-presidents
Mohamed Morsi‘s first appointments as president-elect of Egypt will be a woman and a Coptic Christian, his spokesman has told the Guardian, as he moves to allay fears of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sameh el-Essawy said that...
