TEL AVIV — Hamas officials visiting Egypt have committed to increase their efforts against competing jihadist organizations active in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — No one has any right to interfere in Palestinian reconciliation efforts, Fatah public relations chief Iyad Nasser told Breitbart Jerusalem in response to Egypt’s renewed attempts to conclude a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and the Hamas terrorist organization.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State is threatening to torpedo the presidential elections in Egypt that are scheduled to take place next month.
Appearing at a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Cairo on Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry deflected questions about political freedom in his country by claiming human rights activists lack “information” and a “direct association” with Egyptian society.
Jerusalem – Israel issued stark warnings on Sunday over Iran’s presence in neighbouring Syria after a confrontation threatened to open a new and unpredictable period in the country’s seven-year civil war.
Contents: Egypt’s army launches ‘Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018’ to purge country of terrorism; Multiple reports indicate that Egypt and Israel are cooperating in Sinai
Author and sociologist Frank Furedi claims globalist activists working for billionaire financier George Soros bragged about toppling governments at a private lunch.
For Americans interested in finding solutions to the illegal immigration crisis in the U.S., Israel’s experience is instructive.
It looked as if Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would run for re-election unopposed, but a competing candidate managed to qualify for the March presidential election just minutes before the registration deadline. It probably still won’t be much of a race, as newly minted presidential candidate Mousa Mostafa Mousa leads a party that has endorsed Sisi for re-election and organized political events on the incumbent’s behalf within the last few days.
Contents: Clashes erupt between Saudi and UAE backed forces in South Yemen’s port of Aden; Brief generational history of South Yemen
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian historian wildly claimed that the Jews perpetrated a “counter Holocaust” in which Germans were captured, put in camps, tortured and killed.
CAIRO – Egypt’s ultra-conservative Islamist Al-Nour party has decided to support President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in his bid to be re-elected in March, the party said on Sunday.
Contents: Egypt’s presidential election becomes a farce as opposition candidates are forced out; Tensions rise between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River dam
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Wednesday formally submitted his candidacy for presidential elections in March that he looks certain to dominate as a string of potential challengers have dropped out.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government arrested the nation’s former military chief of staff Lieutenant General Sami Anan after he announced a presidential run against Sisi. He remains in custody but his campaign announced he had suspended his presidential run.
WASHINGTON — The United States has ordered more stringent inspections of air cargo from five Middle East countries, citing a June 2017 attempt in Australia to bring down a plane as evidence that terrorist groups continue to target civilian aviation.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator David Pekoske issued an emergency order Monday requiring stricter scrutiny of U.S.-bound cargo on flights from five majority Muslim countries.
TEL AVIV – Vice President Mike Pence asked Egypt and Jordan to reach out to the Palestinians on behalf of the U.S. in an attempt to bridge ties following President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, Bloomberg news reported on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Welcoming Vice President Mike Pence to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said it was the first time in history that he could stand side by side with another world leader and both could identify Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
Contents: Britain and France renew 1904 Entente Cordiale with new military agreement; Britain will pay £44.5 million to renew the Le Touquet migration agreement
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories – Israel’s nearest neighbours – are amongst the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to a new report.
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country’s Christian minority.
Contents: Tunisia anti-austerity activists call for huge protests on Friday; Tunisia protests evoke memories of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’
TEL AVIV – Backed by the Arab League, the Palestinian leadership is going ahead with its plan to seek recognition as a full member state in the United Nations in response President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said.
TEL AVIV — Coptic Christians in Egypt celebrated Christmas on Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi himself participating in prayers for the holiday in Cairo’s biggest cathedral.
Vice President Mike Pence will visit Egypt, Jordan, and Israel on a Middle East trip scheduled for January 19-23.
TEL AVIV – Egypt on Sunday categorically denied a New York Times report that claimed Cairo had tacitly accepted President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and took surreptitious steps to persuade the Egyptian public that it was a good thing, despite vociferous public declarations in protest of the move.
As President Trump moved last month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, an Egyptian intelligence officer quietly placed phone calls to the hosts of several influential talk shows in Egypt.
Coptic Orthodox Christians packed Egypt’s newly built Nativity of Christ Cathedral on Saturday for a Christmas Eve mass after a bloody year for a minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists.
Another Egyptian singer was arrested on charges of “inciting debauchery” after releasing a sexually suggestive music video, it has emerged.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and Israel on Friday of meddling in Iran after Turkey’s neighbour was gripped by several days of deadly unrest.
Egypt on Tuesday executed four Islamists following their conviction by a military tribunal of killing three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack that wounded six others.
Contents: Iran protesters kill a police officer in escalating violence; Trump and Netanyahu express solidarity with Iranian protesters
A gunman killed two Copts celebrating the New Year in an Egyptian alcohol shop early on Monday, judicial and security sources said, the latest deadly violence against the Christian minority.
The deadly attack outside a church in Egypt lasted up to 20 minutes and it was another 10 more minutes before police shot and wounded the assailant, according to witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis has prayed for the victims of attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt.
(AP)— An Egyptian court has convicted former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and 18 others over insulting the judiciary, sentencing them to three years in prison. Among defendants in the case are prominent rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and political analyst Amr
A squad of terrorist gunmen attacked the Mar Mina church in southern Cairo on Friday, killing between eight and ten people and wounding at least five more, according to various reports.
The Israeli Embassy in Cairo praised on Tuesday an Egyptian scholar who — in televised remarks last weekend — questioned the sanctity of Jerusalem to Muslims.
Egyptian Christians, who celebrate Christmas on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany, are “bracing themselves for another onslaught in the festive period,” according to a new report.