In August 2012, Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint near the Gaza Strip, killing 16 Egyptian security forces and breaching the border before being killed in an Israeli airstrike. Morsi responded by launching an offensive to regain control of the North Sinai.

Syrian state media said

Tensions between Iraq’s Sunni

The Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, who openly support Al Qaeda, were due to hold the gathering in the central city of Kairouan but told their Facebook followers to

Representatives from

A new analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the number of Christians was falling 50 per cent faster than had previously

Weapons supply

Russia, Syria’s most powerful remaining ally, continues to deliver arms to Assad’s regime, but claims that it has no real interest in seeing the president remain in power

Another 37 people were injured in the attack in the Afghan capital on Thursday morning.

Even before the comments by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, chances for a

President Abbas addressed the nation on the Occasion of Nakba.

Abbas who said that they

Meanwhile a second broader diplomatic effort is also being pursued with the European Union’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton meeting up with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator

British Prime Minister David Cameron said after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that they had agreed “that as permanent members