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Appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Thursday evening, President Donald Trump had some choice words for the Islamic State.

On Saturday, a coalition of actresses, pop stars, and Michael Moore congregated in cities throughout the country to protest the peaceful transfer of power between Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, a centuries-old American tradition.

A political crisis is brewing in Egypt, as the High Administrative Court (one of three bodies that effectively fills the role of Supreme Court in Egypt) shot down a plan by the administration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to hand over a pair of disputed Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

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At least three members of the Coptic Christian minority have been killed so far this year in Egypt, including a couple found in their bed with their throats slit on January 6, the traditional Coptic Christmas Day, reports Christian Today, citing World Watch Monitor (WWM).

An Egyptian liquor store owner died on Tuesday after his throat was slit by a middle-aged bearded man, witnesses said.

A top Sunni theologian has faced backlash on social media after he praised Buddhism and described its founder as “one of the most humane characters in history.”

A senior Islamic State jihadist told Breitbart Jerusalem there was an escalation in the tensions between Hamas and IS, following a wave of arrests of Salafist militants in Gaza and the growing cooperation between Hamas and the Egyptian security services.

Key Arab states on Thursday expressed their support for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the two-state solution, which he laid out a day earlier in a long, comprehensive speech in Washington.

A high-ranking Hamas operative was arrested by Israeli security last month after crossing the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement Wednesday, announcing that his interrogation provided vast intelligence concerning the Palestinian terror group’s operations in the coastal enclave.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has approved a law to set up a council headed by his appointees that oversees the media and ensures compliance with “national security” requirements.

An Egyptian paper has published what it claims are the transcripts of meetings between top US and Palestinian officials that, if true, would corroborate Israeli accusations that the Obama administration was behind last week’s UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

Arab social media users were largely content with the UN Security Council motion condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

Egypt has ordered the detention for 15 days of an Al-Jazeera journalist accused of incitement and fabricating news, a prosecution official said on Sunday.

The U.N. Security Council will vote on Friday on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements after four council members again put forward the measure a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Ahead of a possible second attempt Friday to vote on a UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal, Breitbart News sources speculated that Russia could use its veto to kill the measure, even if the United States would not.

A day filled with diplomatic drama ended Thursday evening, when Egypt withdrew an anti-settlement resolution it intended to submit to the UN Security Council just over an hour after President-elect Donald Trump came out squarely against it.

Egypt’s highest court on Sunday ordered the freeing of an author who was jailed for public indecency when extracts from his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper, his lawyer said.

TEL AVIV – A Lebanese columnist slammed the Arab world for its misogyny and blatant discrimination of women, calling out a Lebanese MP for saying that women’s only role is to “give a rapist a reason to rape them.”

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered between 100,000 – 600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was justified in doing so because Jews had seized all manner of control in Germany, spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as being responsible for the country’s economic collapse.

Islamic State supporters vowed revenge when Egypt executed militant leader Adel Habara by hanging on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – The emergent Trump administration is “the first time that we see Washington officials who realize the facts on the ground and frankly declare that they will not accept blackmail or keep silent over extremist and terrorist regimes,” Abdulrahman al-Rashed, an acclaimed journalist and former editor-in-chief of London-based leading Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat, said.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group has reportedly claimed responsibility for carrying out a suicide bombing that killed at least 25 and wounded an estimated 49 others inside a Coptic Christian Church in the Egyptian capital Cairo during Sunday service.

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Egypt’s interior ministry Monday accused fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leaders who have fled to Qatar of training and financing the perpetrators of the bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people.

The suicide bomber who struck a Coptic church in Cairo on Sunday, killing 24 Christians, has been identified by the Egyptian government as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa.

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Grief-stricken mourners gathered in Cairo on Monday for the funeral of 24 people killed when a blast tore through a Coptic church, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority.

Egypt’s Monitor on Extreme Edicts, a department of the Religions Ministry, has called for an “ideological” onslaught against the Islamic State alongside military efforts against the radical Islamic militia. In a statement, the monitor said that IS has suffered from

An explosion on Sunday near the Cairo’s Coptic cathedral killed at least five people and injured 10, Egyptian security sources said.

An Egyptian man has been arrested on charges of killing his 10-year-old daughter because she left the house without his permission.

Egypt has implemented an amended law that toughens repercussions for individuals who carry out female genital mutilation (FGM), a cultural practice that has roots in ancient Egypt and reportedly still affects more than 90 percent of women in the Muslim-majority African country.

A bombing on a main Cairo road leading to the Giza pyramids killed six police and wounded another three on Friday, the deadliest attack on security forces in the capital in more than six months.

An Islamic Jihad delegation that recently returned from Cairo conveyed to Hamas on behalf of the Egyptian government that Cairo is ready to “reboot” its relationship with Gaza’s Islamist government, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Egypt has uncovered a network accused of illicit international trafficking in human organs, arresting 45 people and recovering millions of dollars in a dawn raid on Tuesday, the health ministry said.

An Egyptian state advisory body recommended on Monday that a Cairo court uphold a ruling that annulled an agreement giving Saudi Arabia control of two Red Sea islands.