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During his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi departed from his prepared remarks to plead for peace between the Palestinians and Israel.

Egypt has presented Hamas with a proposal that would allow prisoner exchange negotiations to begin between Israel and the Gaza-based terror group, a Palestinian newspaper reported Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Jewish leaders in the U.S. have slammed Qatar’s attempts to woo the Jewish community by arranging meetings this week with high-level officials – including the emir and crown prince himself – on the basis that the Gulf state continues to be the chief backer of Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Contents: Donald Trump promises to solve the Gulf crisis ‘fairly easily’; Qatar and Saudi Arabia have vitriolic exchangeContents: Donald Trump promises to solve the Gulf crisis ‘fairly easily’; Qatar and Saudi Arabia have vitriolic exchange at Tuesday’s Arab League meeting
at Tuesday’s Arab League meeting

President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed efforts by the leader of Kuwait, a staunch American ally, to mediate a festering diplomatic crisis involving Qatar and its Arab neighbors that could have implications for the U.S. military presence in the region.

Israel’s prime minister says the country is enjoying its greatest relations ever with the Arab world, even without a peace accord with the Palestinians.

President Donald Trump has alarmed the Chinese government again with a threat to cut economic ties to nations that do business with North Korea.

Egypt is expected to reopen religious training camps to reportedly promote female Muslim preachers for the first time and combat Islamic extremism, six years after they were shut down.

Germany and Egypt have agreed on a deal aimed at stemming the number of migrants heading to Europe, including opening a ‘refugee reception’ centre in the African nation.

The government of Egypt indicated that it was caught off-guard by the U.S. decision to delay $195 million in military aid and completely cut $95.7 million in additional assistance, saying it was only given “a few hours” before the Trump administration made the move public, contradicting claims by the State Department.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is delaying $195 million and ultimately denying an additional $95.7 million in aid to American ally Egypt over a “lack of progress in key areas, including human rights” and democratic “governance,” the U.S. State Department and White House have confirmed to Breitbart News.

With remarkably little comment or fanfare, the U.S. government denied $95.7 million in aid to Egypt on Tuesday afternoon, with another $195 million put on hold. The decision was made due to concern with civil liberties and human rights in Egypt, particularly a law regulating non-governmental organizations that took effect in May.

TEL AVIV – Ahead of the arrival of a senior U.S. delegation to the region to jump start the peace process, Palestinian leadership has reiterated that “there will be no peace” without the establishment of a Palestinian state.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday declared the Trump administration to be in “chaos” and that the White House’s plans for peace were incomprehensible.

Before he was elected president, Donald Trump frequently expressed frustration with America’s longest war.

Qatar on Monday denied it had banned Saudi Arabian flights from landing in the emirate to transport Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, after an accusation by authorities in Riyadh.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers on Saturday said they were anticipating renewed efforts by the U.S. to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations  ahead of a visit to the region by advisers to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner and

The Israeli Embassy in Cairo is expected to resume routine activities in the near future, after six years of operating only partially, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.

Israel’s press office said Wednesday it is revoking the credentials of a prominent Al-Jazeera reporter pending a hearing after he told another TV station that the work of Palestinian journalists is part of the “resistance.”

Two passenger trains collided on Friday just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, according to authorities, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade.

CAIRO — Egypt’s interior ministry said Thursday its forces had killed three jihadists suspected of involvement in deadly attacks against the country’s Coptic Christian minority.

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week hosted a Hamas delegation for a meeting to discuss Palestinian reconciliation.

Turkey has begun a modest and long-planned, but perhaps politically significant, joint military exercise with Qatar, the Gulf state shunned by several of its Sunni Muslim neighbors in a bitter diplomatic dispute.

The Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations, speaking in his role as the president of the Security Council, told reporters Wednesday that he does not see the crisis gripping Venezuela as a matter for the Council, as he claims it does not harm international peace and security.

Turkey is building an “International Islamic University” that is intended to challenge the dominance of the Al-Azhar University in Cairo as the seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship.

CAIRO — An Egyptian criminal court has preliminarily sentenced eight people to death over charges of murder during an attack on a police station in a Cairo suburb in 2013.

On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued a decree forming the National Council to Confront Terrorism and Extremism. Membership in the council includes a number of government ministers, plus religious leaders such as the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque and the Coptic Christian Pope.

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Berlin has confirmed that two women stabbed by a knifeman “looking for foreigners” in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada were Germans.

A knife-wielding man has killed two European women and injured four others after apparently swimming into an Egyptian holiday resort from a nearby public beach.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spent Tuesday in Qatar after holding meetings in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to resolve the Gulf diplomatic crisis. As of yet, there has been little sign of progress from Tillerson’s extended mission to the Middle East, although the Saudi royal family thanked him for his efforts.

The Ministry of Antiquities’ Project Sector on Wednesday approved the funds for restoring and developing the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue. The Egyptian government reportedly has approved a $22 million plan to restore a 160-year-old synagogue in Alexandria.