Following the Sinai brutal attack on a mosque, Al-Sisi vowed to take revenge and strike back with an iron fist After militants massacred 305 people at a packed mosque on Friday in a stunning assault [ More … ]
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and the UAE’s Foreign Minister have issued contradictory statements over the former’s fate in the country. Shafiq claimed on Wednesday to have been prevented from leaving the UAE after [ More … ]
The New Arab has revealed that a number of Egyptian military officers had arrived in Derna’s Lemlodeh military base along with the officers of the forces led by Khalifa Haftar – the commander of Libya’s [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities said,”Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai,”reported the CNN. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in [ More … ]
“The Egyptian authorities have allowed local Bedouin tribes to play a role fighting armed groups in the northern Sinai Peninsula following last Friday’s mosque attack near the city of Al-Arish that left more than 300 [ More … ]
Right after al-Radwah mosque attack in Sinai, President Trump decried the attack on “innocent and defenseless worshipers” and used the occasion to again denounce extremist Islamist ideology. He also renewed calls for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, [ More … ]
Crown prince says he will encourage more moderate and tolerant version of Islam in ultra-conservative kingdom Saudi Arabia’s crown prince vowed to “pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the earth” as [ More … ]
Egypt’s recent history shows that indiscriminate military responses to terror only escalate the situation, according to The Guardian. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, cultivates a hard-man image. His response to Friday’s atrocity at al-Rawdah mosque in [ More … ]
War of words between Egypt and Sudan over the Nile River shares continued this week. “We have not borrowed Nile water from anyone; the High Dam was threatened because of Sudan,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister [ More … ]
At least 300 people have died in a militant attack on a mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula in one of the worst terrorist incidents the country has seen in recent years. On Friday, Egypt was [ More … ]
Bin Salman called Iran’s Khamenei “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times, sharply escalating the war of words between the two rival countries. Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown [ More … ]
A Saudi-led coalition blockading Qatar added 11 more individuals and two other entities including a prominent group of Islamic scholars to their “terrorist” blacklists of the Gulf state. A Saudi-led coalition blockading Qatar added 11 [ More … ]
Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian police and National Security agents have routinely used torture and enforced disappearances against both criminal suspects and perceived political opponents with near impunity, according to HRW. In 2011, the world [ More … ]
Two days ago, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi visited Cyprus, met with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and held separate meetings with the state’s senior officials, including the Parliament President Demetris Syllouris. In a press conference, Al-Sisi thanked Anastasiades [ More … ]
Lawmakers have drafted a new law to punish “political commentators and intellectuals” for defaming historical symbols. Egypt has witnessed a widening crackdown on free expression with fresh arrests and raids, according to Deutsche Welle. Local [ More … ]
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