Egyptian girl shoots herself to death after refusing to wear hijab
A 15-year old Egyptian girl who rejected her family’s pressures to wear the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, shot herself to death using her father’s hand gun, Egyptian media reported. The girl, identified only as Amira , was subjected...
Syrian rebels advance on northern army-held town
Syrian rebels advanced on the northern town of Khan al-Assal on Saturday, activists said, and appeared close to seizing one of the last towns in western part of Aleppo province still held by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The army has been attempting...
Rape Case in Dubai Gives a Whole New Meaning to “Victim-Blaming”
A 25-year-old Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail in the United Arab Emirates for having sex outside marriage. The young woman, who was raped in Dubai while on a business trip in March, went to the local...
Turkish police crash Taksim wedding party
Nuray and Ozgur fell in love behind the barricades of last month’s mass anti-government protests in Istanbul, and their wedding ceremony would have been incomplete without the Turkish police. So when the couple picked the epicentre of the revolt on...
Millions flood Egypt streets to demand Morsi ouster
Millions flooded the streets on Sunday determined to oust Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on the anniversary of his turbulent first year in power, in the biggest protests Egypt has seen since the 2011 revolt. As chants of “Leave!” rang out...
14 killed in Iraq attacks
At least 14 people, including teenagers, were killed and 26 injured in separate attacks in Iraq on Sunday, the Interior Ministry and police sources said. Ten people were killed and 24 suffered injuries when an improvised explosive device went off...
Shocking video shows priest and another man being beheaded in Syria
A priest and another Christian were beheaded as a crowd of Syrian insurgents cheered. A video shows the two unidentified men, with their hands tied, surrounded by a cheering crowd of dozens just moments before their heads were cut off...
Iran confirms arrest of Slovak paragliders
Iran yesterday confirmed the arrest of several Slovaks two days after Bratislava announced that a group of paragliders had been apprehended, reportedly accused of espionage. Tehran did not confirm how many Slovaks had been detained, but Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav...
Lebanon: Two killed in clashes between Assir, pro-Hezbollah supporters
Two people were killed Tuesday and several others were wounded in south Lebanon during clashes between supporters of Sheikh Ahmad Assir and the Resistance Brigades, a pro-Hezbollah group, security sources told The Daily Star. The fighting broke out after members of the Resistance...
Turkey Arrests Dozens in Crackdown on Protests
Turkish antiterrorism units arrested dozens of people in several cities early Tuesday as part of an intensifying crackdown against antigovernment protests that have persisted for weeks. The semiofficial Anatolian news agency said 84 people were arrested in the sweeps aimed...
