Middle East Star news Middle East Star news Rss feed

  • Iraq seeing more violence Iraq seeing more violence

    Violence has erupted in many areas of Iraq. On Saturday morning eight people, including a police officer, his wife and children, were killed by gunmen who also kidnapped ten security force personnel in the Rashid area, south of Baghdad. The gunmen first broke into the home of the local administrator, killing one of his guards. They then moved on to the nearby house of Captain Adnan ...

  • Saudi clerics blame Twitter for immoral souls

    A leading senior religious clerics in Saudi Arabia has said that Saudi citizens using Twitter will risk damnation. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh's declaration comes as a move to attack the US-based microblogging service, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, Saudi leaders fear that Twitter and other social media services are platforms for making the dissidents voice out ...

  • Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

    Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

  • Assad blasts West claims of chemical weapons in Syria as pretext to wage war

    Syrian president Bashar Assad has said that claims of the West that the Syrian government used weapons of mass destruction against its countrymen are nothing but a pretext for waging war against Syria. The statement comes after US, Britain and Israel strongly put forth their opinions that there is evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria, News 24 reports. However, Assad said that the ...

  • Ozzy Osbourne moves back in with wife Sharon

    Sharon Osbourne, who was snapped wearing a huge diamond on her wedding finger again, is apparently giving her marriage another chance by letting her wild-man husband, Ozzy Osbourne, move back in with her. The couple, who were reportedly living apart with their marriage in shambles, is spending nights under the same roof once again, the Sun reported. The star's assistants were spotted moving ...

Movie Review

Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa

It is all too appropriate that Sylvester Stallone is returning to South Philly pugilist Rocky Balboa, the character who kicked off his career and with whom he will always be most associated. The original Rocky (1976) was an allegory (self-conscious or not) of Stallones own life a ... ...

On Facebook

  • Suspected U.S. drone attack in Yemen kills 4 Al Qaeda militants

    A suspected American drone attack has reportedly killed four Al Qaeda militants in the southern province of Yemen according to security officials. A fight between Yemeni forces and Al Qaeda in Abyan province last year had drove away militants from several cities that the outfit had ruled over for a brief period in 2011, Fox News reports. According to some security officials, the attack took ...

  • Sectarian Violence Kills 11 in Iraq

    It was a violent day in Iraq Saturday with at least 11 people killed and 10 policemen kidnapped as hatred simmers between the ruling Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority. Gunmen broke into the home of an anti-terrorism policeman in the Baghdad suburb of Rasheed, killing him, his wife, and two children. Another security officer was killed elsewhere in Rasheed. Police say gunmen killed ...

  • Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria

    Reuters © Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen ...

  • Revisiting U.S. Commitment To The Middle East

    Two years ago on May 19, President Obama called for a new chapter in American diplomacy, promising to make it a top priority to support democracy and human rights in a changing Middle East. Some experts say that the U.S. has failed to live up to that commitment in places like Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The conflict in Syria has also opened a darker chapter in the Arab ...

  • Syria Army Storms Rebel Town - Report

    Syrian government forces have surrounded the rebel stronghold of Qusair and are storming it from several directions, says Syrian state TV. Fighting has gone on around the town, near the Lebanese border, for weeks. Syrian opposition activists said government air strikes and heavy shelling had killed at least 16 people in the town so far. Opposition groups say militants from the Lebanese ...

More Middle East Star news