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.
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 15 prisoners convicted of attacks on security forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, police officials said.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted a British woman of smuggling hundreds of powerful painkillers into the country, sentencing her to three years in prison.
TEL AVIV — Sunni Arab countries are reportedly fuming at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over his reaction to the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to Israeli paper Israel Hayom.
Tunisia on Sunday suspended Emirates Airlines flights after a public outcry over security measures in the United Arab Emirates targeting women from the North African country.
Supporters of Egypt’s president announced on Sunday that they have collected more than 12 million signatures from people urging him to run for a second four-year term, a mostly symbolic gesture, as there is little doubt he will contest, and win, next year’s elections.
The Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas’ leader in Gaza said on Thursday a reconciliation deal with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction was collapsing, just 10 weeks after the agreement was reached.
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators attacked an unlicensed church south of Cairo wounding three people, an Egyptian Coptic Christian diocese said on Saturday, in the latest assault on members of the country’s Christian minority.
CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators assaulted an unlicensed church south of Cairo, an Egyptian Coptic Christian diocese said on Saturday, in the latest assault on members of the country’s Coptic minority.
Ali Abdelaziz sees children as a “gift from God”, so much so that he has 10 of his own, even as Egypt’s government struggles to stem a “catastrophic” population boom.
TEL AVIV — An Egyptian military court has handed down a sentence of six years in prison to an army officer for announcing in a video uploaded to social media that he intended to run for president in elections scheduled for next year, according to reports and the individual’s attorney.
The United Nations’ Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would seek to reverse US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Reuters reported on Sunday.
The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution affirming that any change to the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be reversed, in response to the US decision to recognize the city as Israel’s capital.
Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library which holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in South Sinai.
Contents: Organization of Islamic Cooperation throws a temper tantrum over Jerusalem; Palestinians disappointed by final communiqué of OIC Summit
An Egyptian singer has been jailed for two years for “inciting debauchery” after she appeared in her underwear suggestively eating a banana.
Egypt and Russia have reached a $30-billion agreement to build the first nuclear plant in North Africa, marking Moscow’s latest effort to expand its sway in the region.
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Monday for discussions on the Trump administration’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Speaking from a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil called for “pre-emptive measures” against the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. He said this should begin with “diplomatic measures” and then proceed to “political, then economic and financial sanctions” against the United States.
Contents: Protests fizzle 3 days after Trump’s Jerusalem announcement was universally condemned; Trump’s proclamation hardens splits among Arab countries
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about growing violence against Sufi Muslims in Libya on Thursday, noting that two Sufi mosques in Tripoli have been attacked in the past two months.
The UN Security Council will meet on Friday in an emergency session to discuss the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the council’s leadership announced Wednesday.
President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with several Middle Eastern leaders on Tuesday during which he reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and potential decisions regarding Jerusalem.
CAIRO — An Egyptian-European mission has discovered 27 fragmented statues of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet across the Nile from Egypt’s southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said on Sunday.
As the Islamic State loses its safe havens in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military is looking to ensure the group does not find new ones from which they could plan and coordinate attacks on the U.S. and their allies.
CAIRO (EGYPT) – Dozens of Muslims, including religious and army leaders, packed an Egyptian mosque for Friday prayers a week after jihadist gunmen massacred more than 300 people in the house of worship.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday approved a draft agreement with Egypt that will allow Russian warplanes to operate from Egyptian air bases, and vice versa, for at least five years.
IRGC-Quds Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani, in a recent video, told a group of Iranian soldiers in Al-Bukamal, Syria, that the United States forces are “cowards” and that their soldiers wore diapers in the battlefield so they could urinate when scared.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launch and the attack on a mosque in Egypt by Islamic State extremists.
Between 25 and 30 men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s Sinai while donning military combat uniforms.
Iranian state-run television has broadcast a report showcasing a 13-year-old sent to Syria to fight on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, allegedly under the guidance of Iran’s terror chief, General Qasem Soleimani.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper on Sunday ran an article claiming that Israel and the U.S. were behind Friday’s terror attack in a mosque in northern Sinai in which 305 were killed.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia promised on Sunday that the military coalition headed by his country will renew its efforts to “pursue terrorism until it is eradicated completely” following Friday’s monstrous attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Fox News contributor and author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the horrific terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt, with over 300 fatalities.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “horrific and despicable terrorist attack” in Sinai and sent condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian people and the families of the 305 people killed in the attack.
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia gathered officials from 40 Muslim countries on Sunday in the first meeting of an Islamic counter-terrorism alliance, a move Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared a “clear signal” to extremism.
The mosque where Friday’s massacre unfolded in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula had been widely associated with Sufi Muslims who have been attacked by the Islamic State group wherever the extremists operate.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pledged to use “brute force against that small band of extremist terrorists” following a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the Northern Sinai region on Friday which left 235 worshipers dead and over 100 injured.
They arrived in five SUVs, took positions across from the mosque’s door and windows, and just as the imam was about to deliver his Friday sermon from atop the pulpit, they opened fire and tossed grenades at the estimated 500 worshipers inside. When the violence finally stopped, more than 300 people, including 27 children, had been killed and 128 injured.
Contents: Egypt’s worst terrorist attack in modern history kills 235 people in Sufi mosque; Friday’s attack creates another roadblock for Hamas-Fatah unity; Friday’s attack is a major escalation in north Sinai terrorism
