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The Jordanian headquarters of the Islamist movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been shut down by law enforcement, various news outlets report.

TEL AVIV – Israel and Saudi Arabia are engaged in covert ties – the result of mutual interests between the countries – according to an analysis in the Jerusalem Post. The article, published Tuesday, cited a series of events that

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the airport in Ankara on Monday, as the Saudi monarch is en route to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul later this week.

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JAFFA, Israel – Heaven is not Muslim-only, said prominent Egyptian Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasser, defying a near-consensus among Islamic theologians.

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The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel’s navy sunk a suspected smuggling boat that was approaching the coast of the Gaza Strip overnight on Saturday, an army spokesperson said. The IDF spotted a suspicious fishing boat loaded with sacs approaching Gaza from the

TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels attacks, the Arab press has been awash with explosive articles acknowledging the Muslim world’s responsibility for global terror. The views expressed by writers from Kuwait to Jordan to Saudi Arabia represent a brutal reckoning

An Egyptair domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on Tuesday and landed in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said.

Egypt’s state-run news agency says the top judicial disciplinary council has rejected appeals by 31 judges who were forced into early retirement for rejecting the military overthrow of an Islamist president.

TEL AVIV – A column in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat argued that the Arab Spring failed because opposition parties were just as undemocratic and dictatorial as the tyrannical regimes they were fighting to replace. Columnist Uthman Al-Mirghani wrote that

TEL AVIV – Following the carnage in Brussels, Palestinian Authority Security Forces Spokesman said that the U.S. and Europe had created international terror and were therefore responsible for attacks on Western nations, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

CAIRO (AP) — Scans of King Tut’s burial chamber have revealed two hidden rooms, Egypt’s antiquities minister said Thursday – a discovery that could intensify speculation that the chambers contain the remains of the famed Queen Nefertiti.

TEL AVIV – An Islamic State faction in Sinai has been making gains against the Egyptian army and setting up autonomous enclaves in the peninsula, a Salafi militant source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem. He claimed that the Arab and international media collude with the Egyptian army to downplay IS victories. IS, said the source, has driven troops out of the strategic Sinai towns of Sheik Zweid and Al Arish.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj.-Gen. Yoav Morechai, warned in an interview with the Palestinian news media this past week that Hamas and the Islamic State are cooperating, with Hamas fighters engaging in jihad in the Egyptian Sinai and IS sending their wounded to receive medical treatment in Gaza.

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Egypt’s parliament has drafted legislation to ban women from wearing the niqab in public places.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Egypt has banned Hezbollah leaders from entering the country, after the Gulf Cooperation Council labeled Hezbollah a terrorist organization last week.

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An Egyptian court has sentenced three teenage Coptic Christians to five years in jail for insulting Islam in a video posted online last year.

Egypt finally conceded that “terrorism” was behind a Russian passenger plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula last October that killed all 224 tourists aboard.

Reuters describes 62-year-old Elhamy Ibrahim as “a Muslim who does not like very many other Muslims these days, but loves Donald Trump.”

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Egyptian man is on trial in Greece accused of presenting himself as a Syrian refugee — a ploy that succeeded even though he had been apprehended for the same reason before in Greece, fingerprinted and

JAFFA, Israel – An adviser to the Grand Mufti of Egypt warned against the availability of the Islamic State’s propaganda radio network one week after the terrorist group launched an Android application to access the online radio stream. The Mufti’s adviser, Ibrahim Nijem,

The Egyptian military has started rebuilding destroyed Christian churches and properties, years after the Muslim Brotherhood tore the buildings down.

The Jerusalem Post reported: Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Saturday that Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the flooding of several Hamas tunnels linking Egypt to the Gaza Strip, to a certain extent, “due to Israel’s request.” The minister affirmed

Three Christian high school students will stand trial for blasphemy in Egypt Thursday on charges that they insulted Islam, after a video of the students emerged in which they allegedly mock Muslim prayers. If found guilty, the three teenagers could face

CAIRO (AP) — Three Coptic Christian students face charges of insulting Islam and will stand trial this week after appearing in a video mocking Muslim prayers, one of a series of court cases that reflect lingering religious intolerance and Muslim-Christian

A German 18-year-old risked three years in an Egyptian prison to scale to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, bringing a video camera with him to take in the view.

Officials suspect that an EgyptAir mechanic planted a bomb on the Russia-bound plane that crashed over north Egypt in October, killing 224 people on board.

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The Daily Express posted a video Thursday which purports to show a woman screaming as she is attacked in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve. In fact, the video in question was shot in Cairo in 2013, and the audio comes from a completely different clip of an assault that also took place in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2013.

The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of its journalists.

On Monday, Egypt marked the fifth anniversary of the January 25, 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which saw the overthrow of long-time autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.

Following the conclusion of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran, Chinese news outlet Xinhua is touting the superiority of “Chinese wisdom” in solving the many regional issues plaguing the Middle East, from instability to terrorism to economic issues.