Tunisia

A terminal at Milan's international airport was evacuated on Monday after a man smashed a car into the departure lounge because he wanted to stop his wife from leaving, police sources said. The man,

Yes, today there are protests in the streets of Iran, Egypt (again), Bahrain, Yemen, and Algeria. In the last few weeks, there were also street uprisings in Tunisia and Jordan. Iranian riot police

France is prepared to take in some of the illegal immigrants who have arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, but will host a limited number judged on a case-by-case basis. So said country's

A number of Israeli embassies around the world have been temporarily closed due to what the Foreign Ministry called on Tuesday "irregular incidents against Israeli targets."

The uprisings in the Arab world have prompted much hand-wringing among Europeans, who worry that the West has been too lenient with the region's autocrats. Sometimes, however, tolerating dictators is

Italy will try to convince Tunisia to allow it to send police to help stem a wave of illegal immigrant departures from the north African country to Italian shores, according to Roberto Maroni, the

"Jews lived happily together with Muslims and in harmony before Israel was established." How many times have you heard this said?

We are indebted to Torbjorn Karfunkel, who has blown the myth of peaceful coexistence sky-high with his pre-1948 'massacre map' of Jews by Muslims (click on the map to enlarge). The map should not be considered exhaustive, but it does go back to the 7th century, when Mohammed's followers massacred Jewish tribes in Arabia.

With violent protests, riots and revolutions under way in the Arab world, many observers are scratching their heads trying to figure out what to make of it all. Some are proclaiming it a

The attempt to establish a post-colonial order of kings and strongmen to replace the British and French colonial rule over the Arab Muslim world was doomed from the start. Some of the

With no fewer than five major areas of unrest/revolutions/regime changes going on in the Arab world, Arab satellite television, one of the mainstays of information dissemination in the Middle East,