Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Athens with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in the early hours of Friday, police said, but no injuries or damage were reported. Four people on two motorcycles fired shots at the embassy building in a northern suburb of Athens, a police official said. Bullets were lodged in…
Twitter/Newsweek Israel’s embassy in Dublin has deleted a series of tweets showing iconic works of art, including the Mona Lisa, dressed as Jihadists. All images were captioned: “Israel is the last frontier of the free world.” The images, captioned “Israel is the last frontier of the free world,” were sent from the embassy’s official Twitter…
The new interactive city map issued by the Buenos Aires state government includes an icon to memorialize the bomb that destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29. “Here there was life,” or “Aca habia vida” in Spanish, is the name of the commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the attack on March 17,…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will lobby on behalf of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when she visits Israel on Monday. Kerry, who held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Thursday, is trying to nudge both sides at least to agree on a framework…
An American man was stabbed in the stomach outside the gates of the United States embassy in Cairo on Thursday, a security source said. The victim was in an “unstable condition” at a Cairo hospital and an Egyptian arrested over the attack had refused to give any details about his motive, the source told Reuters….
A man stabbed a security guard at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and was apprehended, a police spokesman said, and Israel Radio reported the assailant was an Israeli with a criminal background. The motive for the attack, which occurred outside the beachfront embassy, was not immediately known. “A Mazda car stopped next…
An Egyptian Coptic Christian arrested on suspicion of posting online an anti-Islam film that ignited Muslim protests around the world should be freed immediately, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber was detained by police in Cairo last month after his neighbours accused him of uploading sections of the film “Innocence of…
A California man behind an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests in the Muslim world was due in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a bank fraud conviction and should be sent back to prison. The Egyptian-born man, known publicly as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, has…
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