Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood movement has denounced a UN report aimed to end violence against women and girls worldwide, calling the report “deceptive” and aimed at undermining Islamic mores. “The Muslim Brotherhood calls on leaders of Islamic countries, their foreign ministers and representatives in the United Nations to reject and...

Six people were injured –including a mother and her two-year-old daughter in critical condition – Thursday night near Ariel after Palestinians hurled stones at a passenger bus, causing a three-vehicle collision. The stones shattered the bus windshield, lightly injuring several passengers and apparently causing the vehicle to careen into a...

Israeli sources who spoke to The Tower today described a “Cold War” being fought in the media between Egyptian authorities and Hamas, as Hamas announced that it was suing [Arabic] an Egyptian news outlet over a report linking the group to a Sinai Peninsula attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. Hamas...

Egyptian security services have halted the screening of a documentary exploring the lives of early 20th century Egyptian Jews, telling its producer that a security agency wanted to review it. The film, titled Jews of Egypt, was set to debut this week in local cinemas. Producer Haytham el-Khamissy posted a...

A network of spy stations is transmitting information from Lebanon to Iran, according to a report in the Saudi daily Al-Watan [Arabic]. In the report, journalist Fatima Houhou writes that information passed on to Tehran includes video, phone, and electronic data. Houhou goes on to suggest that the information is...

Egypt is facing the possibility of a spiraling economic crisis after the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government on Tuesday declined an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund. Cairo requires the assistance in order to bolster an increasingly severe shortfall in its currency reserves, which recently fell below critical levels: [R]eserves...

A statement by Syria’s grand mufti has citizens of the war-torn country fearing that a full military draft may be in the offing: The statement was issued by the Syrian government’s top cleric, Grand Mufti Ahmad Badredeen al-Hassoun, on behalf of the country’s Supreme Fatwa Council and said: “Military service...

Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported this evening that President Barack Obama will shorten his visit to the Palestinian Authority territories to just four hours, and may skip Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority government is headquartered, entirely. Instead Obama will visit Bethlehem, according to an anonymous Palestinian government source who spoke...

Echoing calls by U.S. officials and Bulgarian diplomats, Israeli President Shimon Peres has called upon the European Union to formally designate Hezbollah as a terror organization. In an historic speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Peres emphasized that the Iran-backed group has engaged in a global terror campaign that...

The Iranian government is broadening its efforts to censor and control access to the Internet as the country approaches its June elections. Wired reports that last week the head of Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Committee, Ramezanali Sobhani-Fard, announced to the public that the regime would be cracking down on Virtual Private...