The Trump administration is wisely designating affiliates as terrorists, but not the umbrella organization, says a recent Bloomberg report. A year ago it looked like Donald Trump was going to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as [ More … ]
As Egypt is on its way for the presidential elections scheduled in 2018, candidates either withdrew under threats, including jail. One of the likely candidate is former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik who has announced that [ 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 … ]
By: David Pollock* As President Trump unveils his revised U.S. strategy to contain Iran, surveys reveal that key Arab publics in the region share his antipathy toward Tehran. Previously reported polls from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood’s former supreme guide Mahdi Akef died in prison on Friday (Sept. 22) at the age of 89 due to medical negligence. After four years of suffering from cancer in prison without receiving [ More … ]
Egypt Daily News has long claimed to be the only ‘independent’ daily in a heavily restricted media landscape The Egypt Daily News site is to be taken over by a state-run newspaper as part of [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies claimed a ‘major victory’ in Jordan’s provincial and municipal elections, which concluded late on Tuesday. A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition announced a “major victory” in Jordan’s local elections on Tuesday, [ More … ]
A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years. [ More … ]
Hamas rejects Saudi claim that it is a terror organization, says Saudi push to isolate it is ‘regrettable’; and Muslim Brotherhood blasts Saudi Arabia for Adel Al-Jubeir’s comments. Hamas on Wednesday responded to a demand [ More … ]
A number of Arab nations cut off relations with Qatar on Monday morning, accusing it of ‘sponsoring terrorism’. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Libya all cut off [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood has issued a statement condemning the UAE’s “blatant interference in the affairs of several Arab countries and coordination with the Zionist lobby for spreading chaos, killing, and coups in the region,” according to [ More … ]
Egypt has banned 21 websites, including the main website of Qatar-based al Jazeera television, claiming that they are “supporting terrorism”, according to Reuters. Reuters said that it had tried to access five websites named by local [ More … ]
Hamas has finalised its new charter, reportedly recognising Israel’s 1967 borders, changing the definition of its enemy from ‘Jews’ to ‘the occupiers’ and distancing itself from the Muslim Brotherhood. The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, is [ More … ]
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, blasted on Sunday court officials during the first session of a re-trial on charges that claimed that he orchestrated a prison break during the 2011 revolution. Last Sunday, an [ More … ]
Egypt’s public prosecutor Nabil Sadek decided Tuesday to summon everyone named on the “terrorist list” for investigation regarding their alleged involvement in funding Muslim Brotherhood. In January, 1,538 people were placed on a so-called “terrorists [ More … ]
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