Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
ABC News (NEW YORK) — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.“Our current…
US Braces for Further Protests in Cairo over Anti-Muslim Film
Ed Giles/Getty Images(CAIRO) — The U.S. government is bracing itself for the fourth straight day of protests in Cairo and other parts of the Middle East as anger over a U.S.-produced film mocking the Prophet Mohammed continues to grow.Many protesters …
Secretary Clinton Delivers Powerful Religion Speech After Middle East Embassy Attacks
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Secretary Clinton delivered a powerful and personal speech about religion at an Eid ul-Fitr reception, marking the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. The speech, at times, was a direct response to the attacks …
Police Sent to California Home of "Innocence of Muslims" Producer
Thinkstock/Getty Images(CERRITOS, Calif.) — As outrage over the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims spreads across the Middle East, police were sent to the California home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the film’s producer, who according to authoritie…
Obama Says Egyptian Government Neither Ally nor Enemy
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Perhaps angered by Egypt’s slow response to condemning the U.S. Embassy attack in Cairo, President Obama told Telemundo on Wednesday, “I don’t think that we would consider [the current Egyptia…
Who Is Sam Bacile? Anti-Islam Filmmaker’s Bio Doesn’t Add Up
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The filmmaker who produced an incendiary, anti-Muslim movie that stirred extremists on Tuesday to storm the U.S. embassy in Egypt — and may be linked to the fatal attack on the U.S. ambassador in Libya — may have g…
Sen. Jon Kyl: US Embassy Response Like Blaming Rape Victim
Allison Shelley/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., suggested on Wednesday that President Obama’s response to the embassy attacks in Egypt and Libya was akin to a court asking a rape victim for an apology.Speaking to reporters on C…
Obama Says Romney ‘Shoots First and Aims Later’ in Embassy Attack Comments
Saul Loeb/AFP/J.D. Pooley/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) — President Obama said Wednesday that criticism of his handling of the assaults on American embassies in Libya and Egypt was off the mark, suggesting that Mitt Romney has “a tendency to shoot first and…
Henry Kissinger ‘Can Understand’ Mitt Romney’s ‘Severe’ Reaction to Mideast Violence
Qamar Sibtain/India Today Group/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Former U.S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told ABC News on Wednesday that he “can understand” why Mitt Romney’s initial reaction to the violence in the Middle East was &l…
Obama Administration Distances Self from Statement Issued by US Embassy in Cairo
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration Tuesday distanced itself from a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.In a statement online, the Embassy of the United States in Cairo said that it “condemns the continuing effor…
American State Department Officer Killed in Libya Consulate Attack; Cairo Embassy Also Stormed in Protest Over Film
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages(BENGHAZI, Libya) — An American State Department employee was killed in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday, when islamic extremists stormed the U.S. consulate.
Some reports have linked the attack in Libya to an apparently U.S…
Egyptians Flood US Embassy to Protest Film
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Hundreds of protesters marched on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Tuesday.Some climbed the walls into the courtyard and brought down the U.S. flag. They were enraged over an apparently U.S.-produced anti-Islamic vide…
Syria Condemns Egyptian President
AFP/Getty Images(DAMASCUS, Syria) — The Syrian government is not at all pleased with comments made this week by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was critical of the government’s 18-month crackdown on pro-democracy forces.During a meeting of the A…
Egypt and Turkey Take Turns Blasting Syrian President
AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad got a one-two punch Wednesday at a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo Wednesday.Already outspoken in his criticism of al-Assad for the 18-month government crackdown on pro-democratic forces, …
Egypt Seeks Nearly $5 Billion in Aid from IMF
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(CAIRO) — Waning tourism and growing debt is threatening the Egyptian economy, and now the post-Mubarak government is asking the International Monetary Fund for help to the tune of nearly $5 billion.In a meeting Wednesday with IMF …
More Heads Roll in Purge of Egypt’s Military
AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — In his boldest move yet since becoming Egypt’s president, Mohammed Morsi on Sunday called for the resignations of the head of the country’s armed forces and his deputy.The announcement for the removal of Field Marshal Hussein …
Egypt’s President Goes on Firing Binge After Soldiers Are Killed
AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Egypt’s new president took drastic measures to establish his authority on Wednesday following the deaths earlier this week of 16 soldiers by militants in the province of North Sinai.Mohamed Morsi’s office announced a series o…
Egyptian Kidnapper Threatens to Kill Two American Hostages If Arrested
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A Bedouin tribesman is threatening to kill two Americans he kidnapped Friday in Egypt’s Sinai Desert if he’s arrested. Jirmy Abu-Masuh, 32, of the Tarbeen tribe, said in an interview that the Americans are being treated well &mda…
Two Americans Kidnapped in Egypt
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A Bedouin tribesman says he kidnapped two Americans tourists from Boston on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to get his uncle freed from prison, and says he will kidnap more people if his demand is not met.The two Amer…
Power Struggle Continues in Egypt
AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — The tug of war for power in Egypt intensified on Tuesday when the country’s High Constitutional Court blocked a decree by the newly-elected Islamic president to reconvene the nation’s parliament.Parliament did reco…