Egypt military-installed government declares the Muslim Brotherhood movement a “terrorist” group banning all its activities amid raging tensions in the North African country. Egypt interim government officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Wednesday, saying that its findings show the movement launched a bomb attack, killing 16 people and leaving some 140 wounded,... 

The United Nations says there is “no doubt” that thousands of people have been killed in the weeklong fighting across South Sudan, while official figures put the death toll at nearly 500. “Absolutely no doubt in my mind that we’re into the thousands” of dead, said Toby Lanzer, the top UN humanitarian chief in the country, at a press conference in the capital Juba on Tuesday. UN... 

Explosions at a police headquarters in Mansoura, Egypt, early Tuesday morning killed at least 14 people and injured 130, according to Egypt’s health ministry. According to the state health ministry, multiple explosions at a security directorate in Mansoura, capital of the Daqahliya province in northern Egypt, occurred early Tuesday, Al-Ahram reported. Most of the dead were among police agents... 

A federal appeals court in New York City has revived litigation against Saudi Arabia on behalf of families of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. More than twelve years after the 9/11 attacks and eight years after a lower federal court ruled Saudi Arabia had immunity from prosecution, a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled on Thursday that families of... 

The UN mission probing allegations of chemical attacks in Syria says chemical weapons were probably used at least five times during the foreign-sponsored turmoil in the Arab country. The UN inspectors, led by Swedish expert Aake Sellstrom, handed a final report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, citing “evidence consistent with the probable use of chemical weapons” in the Syrian districts... 

An explosion has hit an area near Yemen’s Ministry of Defense in the capital, Sana’a, security sources say. Armed clashes erupted near the ministry after the explosion, which occurred on Thursday. Following the incident, the Yemeni military said at least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in the bomb attack. “The attack took place shortly after working hours started at the ministry,”... 

Foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria have kidnapped 12 nuns from a convent in the Christian town of Ma’loula. According to local authorities on Tuesday, the militants took the nuns to the nearby town of Yabrud after they stormed the convent on Monday. There is no word on the fate of the nuns, but militants are usually known to kill people they kidnap. The militants fighting against... 

The United States and Israel, both supporters of the insurgency in Syria, have been overwhelmed by the ongoing crisis in that country, an analyst tells Press TV. “…I feel that at this time, Syria has been such a disaster in terms of public relations for America and for Israel,” Mark Glenn said in a Sunday interview. “The whole world knows what took place there, that this was not some grassroots... 

Intelligence services considered assassinating Muslim leader, blaming neo-nazis. French intelligence services planned to stage a terror attack in Britain and then blame it on neo-nazis in a bid to assassinate Muslim hate preacher Abu Hamza, according to an investigation by pressure group Hope Not Hate. Following the 1999 nail-bombing campaign in London, carried out by far-right terrorist David Copeland,... 

A meeting of Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council Saudi Arabia is reportedly trying to obtain atomic bombs as Iran and the west reach a deal over Tehran’s nuclear energy program. Abdullah al-Askar, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Saudi Arabia’s appointed Shoura Council, said he was worried after Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council —... 

Western media outlets have come under criticism from Christians in Syria for turning a blind eye to atrocities carried out by Takfiri terrorist groups against the Christian community in the war-torn country. A new report by the news service of the Pontifical Mission Societies highlights the massacre of 45 Christians in the village of Sadad, northeast of Damascus. The killing marks the biggest massacre... 

The police of Kosovo arrested six Albanians in Pristina and Gnjilane suspected of preparing terrorist attacks. Reportedly, the detainees were preparing an explosion of one of the man-made lakes to flood several villages. There are reports saying that Kosovo is being converted into a base for training terrorists. In general, the boomerang, launched by the West, is back. Al-Qaeda has established itself... 

Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in Maiduguri, the capital city of the northeastern Borno State. The Nigerian Senate has approved a request by the country’s president to extend emergency rule in the restive northeast for another six months. Lawmakers in Nigeria’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Thursday “to extend the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and... 

Turkish authorities say they have seized a large quantity of chemicals on the country’s border with Syria, adding that the chemicals “could be transformed into weapons.” Turkey’s army said in a statement issued on Sunday that a convoy of three vehicles attempted to smuggle the chemicals across the border on Saturday near the southeastern Turkish town of Reyhanli. Para-military police were... 

On Monday, an alleged terrorist attack took place at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A passenger vehicle crashed into the crowd and then burst into flames. Five people were killed, 38 injured and hospitalized. Some police sources associate the incident with the Uighurs, a Muslim separatist-minded population of China. Has jihad come to China? On Tuesday, Reuters agency, citing informed sources, reported...