Iran has unveiled what it says is a new “indigenous” long-range unmanned drone capable of flying over most of the Middle East, state media report. The Shahed (Witness) 129 had a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles) and could be equipped with bombs and missiles, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said. It is reportedly capable of [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed an anti-Islam film that has provoked a violent reaction in the Muslim world, spoke strongly against homosexuality and said what his country would do if attacked by Israel in an interview airing Monday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.” The president denounced the film, “Innoncence of Muslims,” that portrays the Prophet [...]
A Pakistan government minister has personally offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who kills the man who made the anti-Islam movie that is drawing ire throughout the Muslim world. Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour announced the bounty at a news conference Saturday, but he made clear to CNN he was speaking for himself and not [...]
Marked by the U.S. Embassy seal, advertisements condemning an anti-Islam video appeared on Pakistani television on Thursday in an apparent attempt to undercut anger against the United States, where the film was produced. Hundreds of youths, however, clashed with security officials as they tried in vain to reach the embassy in Islamabad amid anger in [...]
France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing crude, lewd caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Wednesday’s issue of the provocative satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year, raised concerns that France [...]
The chaos is palpable, as a throng of Libyans frantically scramble outside a damaged building. Suddenly, a man’s body is carried from inside toward an open window — and the frenzy and sounds become even more urgent, more emotional. “Get him out!” some yell. After joyfully discovering the man — a foreigner, apparently, a voice [...]
China says six boats sent to disputed islands at the centre of a row with Japan were ”successful” in patrols to show Beijing’s jurisdiction there. The statement comes after protests spread to dozens of Chinese cities. China sent the boats to the islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, after Tokyo sealed a [...]
A band of insurgents dressed in U.S. Army uniforms waged a deadly assault on U.S.-British military complex in Afghanistan before being beaten back by coalition forces, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said Saturday. Two U.S. Marines and 14 insurgents died in the “sustained” fighting during the Friday-night attack, ISAF said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying [...]
As anti-American furor raged in the home of the Arab Spring, the top U.S. diplomat on Friday sternly warned countries where the unrest has been most pronounced: Stop the violence and seek justice against those attacking diplomatic missions, or else the United States will. From Morocco to Malaysia, thousands of Muslims have taken to the [...]
President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to “bring to justice” the Islamist gunmen responsible for a ferocious assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans – an attack that may have been organized in advance. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the other Americans died after the gunmen attacked the lightly fortified U.S. [...]