Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a conservative Islamist candidate for the Egyptian presidency, is accusing opponents' supporters of forging California public records indicating that his mother was an American citizen.
A rocket exploded in the Israeli resort town of Eilat early Thursday morning. No one was injured when the rocket landed in a construction site near a residential neighborhood.
Neslisah Sultan, the twice exiled Ottoman princess, died Monday. She was 91.
Preparations are underway across the world among Jewish communities to celebrate the holiday and festival of Passover, commemorating the story of Exodus or the departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt as described in the Hebrew Bible.
By deciding to field a candidate in Egypt's upcoming presidential election, the long-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has turned a corner. So has Khairat al-Shater, the chosen Islamist contender for the top job in Egypt post-Hosni Mubarak.
Iran is helping Syria skirt the sanctions imposed on it by the US and other Western countries by providing it with a vessel to transport oil to China, Reuters has reported quoting sources.
The new iPad's A5X chip is the most powerful yet. Apple claimed that the chip offers four times the performance of the Nvidia Tegra 3. Is that true?
The power struggle between Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the military-appointed government has escalated with the Islamists in the parliament drawing up a no-confidence motion against the government.
Dubai's top security official accused supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday of using social media to stir up opposition to the Gulf's ruling elite.
Sarkozy said he would ban certain Imams invited to attend a congress by the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF), a group regarded as being close to Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
French authorities have ordered the brother of an al Qaeda-inspired killer to be detained on suspicion of complicity in his sibling's assassination of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three soldiers.
Eva Sandler, the widow of rabbi Jonathan Sandler and mother of Gabriel Sandler (3) and Arieh Sandler (5), who were killed by the gunman in the French city of Toulouse, has sent out a message to the Jewish community in memory of her family.
Despite the ongoing controversy over Egyptian crackdowns on foreign and American NGOs, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. will resume annual military aid payments to Egypt of $1.3 billion.
On Friday, Israel allowed nine Egyptian tankers carrying nearly half a million liters of industrial fuel to pass through the Kerem Shalom border crossing and into Gaza, enough to run the plant for about a day.
Syria fits the bill of a nation that has made most of its friends by virtue of having common enemies. There is probably no other way to explain how this fiercely secular Arab nation has been commanding tremendous support from the religious fanatics that routinely make Iranian governments.
Israel is emptying the contents of its embassy in Cairo, officials on both sides confirmed, suggesting strained diplomatic relations between the two nations since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak's regime.
An IMF team has arrived in Cairo Monday for talks, on a $3.2 billion loan facility for Egypt. This can be a crucial meeting especially as collapse in investor confidence since last year’s revolution has left Egypt on the brink of a balance of payments crisis according to Capital Economics.
Omar Sharif Jr. says he fears returning to Egypt after coming out as gay and half-Jewish. The Grandson of two-time Gold Globe-winning actor Omar Sharif says he hesitantly confessed to his race and sexual orientation, in a piece published by The Advocate this weekend.
Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in the Abbassiya section of Cairo to pay their respects to their spiritual leader, who was dressed in formal robes and seated on a chair inside St Mark's Cathedral. But the crush of the crowd in Cathedral Square sparked momentary chaos when a stampede on the church grounds resulted in the death of at least three people and injured more than 50 others.
Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral sees further tragedy as Egyptian Coptic Christians crushed to death at mourning ceremony.
Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III passed away today, but you'd be forgiven for never having heard of him.
Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in Egypt, died Saturday at the age of 88, according to the country's official Middle East News Agency.
