Jordan’s moderate Islamist opposition made significant gains in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, initial official results showed on Wednesday, boosted by anger over the Israel-Hamas War. The Islamist Action Front (IAF) also benefited from a new electoral law that encouraged a more significant role for political parties in the 138-seat parliament. However, tribal and pro-government factions … Read more
Action movie buffs will recall Olympus Has Fallen, a 2013 film in which the White House is attacked and taken over by Korean terrorists seeking to unify the Korean Peninsula. The sequel London Has Fallen, in which radical Islamic terrorists plagued the UK capital, followed in 2016. While the plots are fantastical, the underlying … Read more
Hundreds of students gathered at university campuses in Lebanon on Tuesday to protest against Israel, the country’s first coordinated university protests over Gaza, which participants said were inspired by sit-ins in the United States. Students, alumni and other Lebanese gathered at campuses in the capital Beirut and elsewhere on Tuesday, waving Palestinian flags and … Read more
