ISIL terrorist group said Tuesday that it was behind the car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed eight people a day earlier. The group’s Egyptian branch, Sinai Province, said in a statement that “soldiers of the caliphate” had staged the assault on the checkpoint ...
CIA Director John Brennan said the outgoing administration of US President Barack Obama overestimated the outcome of the Arab Spring, in expecting democracy to take root in the region. In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN, Brennan said that although the people in the region wanted individual freedom, “the concept ...