Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that the recent terror attack in Kenya shows that Islamic terrorism is a “religious war” on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “He [Obama] also continues to say ‘none of this is about religion.’
Islamic militants carried out a wave of terror attacks on early Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula. In the most deadly of five separate attacks, over fifteen Egyptian soldiers were killed, and at least nineteen were wounded, officials stated. All of the assaults were carried out near the military checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid, which is located mere miles from the Gaza Strip.
WASHINGTON, DC — President Obama released U.S. military aid to Egypt that had been suspended since the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was ousted from Egypt’s presidency in 2013, the White House announced.
Christians in the Egyptian village of Al Our are looking to build a new church in honor of the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya, a mass-murder outrage captured in a viral video circulated by the Islamic State. 13 of the 21 Christians slaughtered in the video hailed from Al Our; they had gone to Libya in search of employment. A church in their hometown would seem like a fine way to remember them.
Yemen crisis continues growth into major war and humanitarian crisis; Pakistan debates Saudi Arabia’s call for help
Russian President Vladimir Putin received massive blacklash from countries at the Arab summit when he submitted a letter that stated he could not “express support for the Middle East.” The leaders at the summit accused Putin of hypocrisy since he is a known ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Naval forces from Saudi Arabia moved to block ports in Yemen in an effort to prevent weapons and fighters from coming in and out of the country as coalition airstrikes continue to target Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Reuters reports at least 40 people were killed and 200 more wounded in an errant attack against a camp for “displaced people” in northern Yemen on Monday. Houthi insurgents claim this was collateral damage from an air attack on their positions by the Saudi-led international coalition seeking to restore the government of deposed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The leaders of Arab League nations have officially agreed to form a unified military force to counter Iranian influence and Islamist extremism.
Top Iranian journalist defects, criticizes US nuclear negotiators; Arab League meeting ends with promise for joint Arab military force; Report: Iran nuclear negotiations may be deadlocked
The Saudi-led strikes against Yemen continued over the weekend on the capital of Sanaa against the Shiite Houthi group.
Syria’s al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib; Arab League positions harden against Houthis and Iran
Puerto Rico bankruptcy may be imminent, potentially a ‘seminal event’; Israel releases tax revenue collections to Palestinian Authority; Mideast nations line up for and against Saudi airstrikes in Yemen; Mideast countries opposed to Saudi intervention in Yemen
Iran-backed Houthi rebels vow to transform Yemen into a “graveyard of invaders” if the Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes are followed by a ground offensive.
Saudi Arabia, with US help, leads Arab nations to strike Houthis in Yemen; Iran threatens retaliation against Saudi Arabia for Yemen strikes; Shia militias sidelined for Iraq’s assault on Tikrit, with US help
Iran will not be the last Middle Eastern nation to get atomic weapons after President Obama formalizes the collapse of Western resistance to nuclear proliferation. Also, they probably won’t be the first.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday in an event that appears intended to strengthen ties between Baghdad and Damascus in light of their mutually shared threat of Islamic State (ISIS) invasion. Iraq’s desire to forge stronger ties with Assad flies in the face of American diplomatic efforts to isolate the dictator after his alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.
Russia signed a $10 billion deal to build Jordan’s first nuclear power plant. It is the third nuclear deal for Russia and the second within that region.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Obama administration should support Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, suggested retired Gen. Michael Hayden and Newt Gingrich while testifying before a House panel.
CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan is back in the hospital in Washington, D.C., due to years-long complications stemming from the brutal sexual assault she endured in Egypt while covering the Arab Spring in early 2011, several sources close to her—including one family friend who went on the record—confirmed to Breitbart News on Monday evening.
While taking a good deal of criticism for his seeming lack of knowledge on foreign policy this week, Republican Ben Carson told Bloomberg Politics that he is in process of taking in a great deal of information in that regard.
The Social Solidarity Directorate of Luxor in Egypt is honoring Sisa Abu Daooh this week for disguising herself as a man for 43 years in order to provide for her family. She did not have a source of income after her husband passed away.
The story of Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh is disturbing, but not entirely unique, as a report from NJ.com notes. A federal indictment charges that the New Jersey man–a born-and-bred American who served four years in the Air Force–began following the Islamic State online and decided to join the jihad by arranging a “vacation” to Turkey, with an eye toward slipping across the border into Syria.
Tunisia in shock after terror attack on museum in Tunis; Beneath the surface, Tunisia is a terrorist breeding ground
Over the weekend, Egypt unveiled plans to build a wholly new capital. The new city would lie somewhere to Cairo’s east, closer to the Red Sea. It would sprawl across some 150 square miles and potentially be home to as many as 7 million people. Projected to cost $45 billion, it was announced at a summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El-Sheikh aimed at boosting the country’s flagging economy.
Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, was among fourteen Islamists who have been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court.
Events in February, half a world apart, should give the staunchest “Team Obama” supporters pause to question this Administration’s mental health in understanding the evil plaguing the Middle East, primarily, and the West secondarily.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with the Washington Post for a wide-ranging interview, covering a plethora of issues in which his country remains deeply involved, including the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood and global jihadi terrorism and Egypt’s promising relationship with the state of Israel.
Since the army took power from Mohamed Morsi in 2013 with popular support, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says he’s been fighting to keep the forces of anarchy at bay. On the eve of a large investment conference this weekend, he invited The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth to the massive white presidential palace for a conversation about Egypt’s problematic relationship with Washington, how to defeat the Islamic State, and his fears and hopes for his country.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined others in calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Great Sphinx and Pyramids. In a statement out this week, said it is a Muslim’s “religious duty” to destroy the monuments. The monuments are the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World still in existence.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier on Monday and discussed a variety of issues concerning the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
On March 13-15, Egypt will hold an economic investment conference at Sharm el-Sheikh, with a major focus on the energy sector. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government sees the conference as an important component of a strategy to improve the economy through attracting private investment.
The UK Telegraph reports that the first of many death sentences handed down after the fall of Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government has been carried out–a hanging. It remains to be seen how many of the hundreds of other potential executions arising from controversial mass trials will be conducted.
(Reuters) – A series of bombings killed one person and injured nine in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria on Sunday and an attack by unidentified gunmen in another province wounded two others, security and medical sources said.
Libya’s two rival governments in unity talks to fight ISIS; UAE may replace Saudis as Egypt’s most important Arab ally; Boko Haram kills 58 in multiple bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria; Boko Haram declares allegiance to ISIS
Between 27 and 30 Coptic Christian families in North Sinai have been forced to flee after receiving death threats from Islamist entities in the region, the Cairo Post reports.
Reports indicate Egypt, Italy, Russia planning military action in Libya; Egypt court declares Hamas to be a terrorist organization; Egypt and Turkey may try to create a ‘Sunni front’ with Saudi Arabia
To protect a precious archaeological area that stretches around a church dating back to the fourth century AD, a group of Coptic monks from the Monastery of Saint Macarius have staged a resistance to a road-building project, going so far as to lie down in front of approaching bulldozers.
In light of the targeting of Christians by the Islamic State–particularly in Libya and Syria–Christian Coptics in the United States assembled before the White House this week to demand the Obama administration address the plight of their brethren in the Middle East.
The Egyptian president said last weekend that the need for a “unified Arab force” is growing daily as the region faces threats from jihadists such as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL).