Tag: Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood founder was a Jew, says retired Egyptian general
Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was secretly a Jew, retired Egyptian General Fouad Fayoud said last month on Egyptian television.
Speaking on Egypt’s Channel 1 on Oct. 27, Fayoud said al-Banna had lived in a...
US threatens Egypt with sanctions over possible Russian arms deal
The United States has threatened Egypt with sanctions were the latter to acquire Russian warplanes.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki in...
Israel seeks to prevent further escalation on second day of conflict with Islamic Jihad
Israel carefully managed its second day of conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, keeping airstrikes focused on the suppression of Gazan rocket-launch squads, as Hamas, despite declarations, continued to sit on the...
Meeting with Rouhani at UN unlikely, says Trump
As U.S. President Donald Trump left the White House on Sunday for the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, he expressed doubt that a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would...
Egyptian, Jordanian leaders meet ahead of Kushner’s arrival in the region
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met in Cairo just days before the arrival of an U.S. team in the region to discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Mideast peace plan.
According to...
In humiliating blow, Egypt prevents Hamas leader from leaving Gaza Strip
Egypt is preventing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh from setting out on a fundraising trip to several countries, chief among them Iran, Gaza media reported on Tuesday.
Hamas’s official mouthpiece in the Gaza Strip, Al-Risala, claimed that...
Mohamed Morsi and the dangerous lessons of the Arab Spring
His death, like much of his life, was in service to the Islamist cause he championed. By dropping dead in a courtroom where he was caged and silenced, Mohammed Morsi served to bring attention...
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dead at 67
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died on Monday at the age of 67 after passing out during a court session.
The Muslim Brotherhood member led Egypt from 2012, following the ouster of longtime head Hosni...
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The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamophobia trap
As far as administration critics are concerned, U.S. President Donald Trump is about to do it again.
His plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group has the foreign-policy establishment wringing their hands...
Regional power clash? Egypt and Iran vie for influence in Gaza
At the start of April, Hebrew media reports quoted unnamed Israeli security officials as saying that the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror faction, whose rocket arsenal is larger than even that of Hamas, was...