The White House said on Tuesday that the United States is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The decision will bring harsh sanctions against the world’s oldest Islamist movement, which has more than a million members across the Middle East. “The President has consulted with...

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In a television interview with CBS’s flagship program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the intimate security cooperation with Israel in the Sinai Peninsula against jihadist forces, The Jerusalem Post reported. When the interviewer asked Sisi whether the cooperation was the “deepest and closest” that...

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Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, declared on Wednesday that his country “scored a goal” by signing a $15 billion deal with an Israeli company to supply natural gas, The Times of Israel reported. Sisi said in televised comments that the project “has a lot of advantages” for Egyptians and will...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met on Monday night in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu’s office said the 90 minute meeting included a discussion about a range of regional issues and that al-Sissi expressed his desire to support Israeli-Palestinian regional peace...

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In an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi lauded security cooperation with Israel while expressing his concern about the Islamist extremism his country faces. Sisi blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for recent violence in the Sinai Peninsula and on the Egypt-Libya border, referring to the group as “the...

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As Islamic terrorism continues to plague Egypt, the country plans to set up a committee to look into ways of blocking terror-linked websites, the Egyptian Al Ahram daily reported Tuesday. [Egyptian Prime Minister] Ibrahim Mahlab is forming a committee to study possible amendments to national security laws in order to remove websites linked to...

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Egypt became on Sunday the first Arab country to designate the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a faction of Hamas, as a terrorist group. The court that made the designation accused the Hamas branch of launching terrorist attacks to support the Muslim Brotherhood and executing a bombing that killed 33 security personnel in...

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The Qatari-owned TV network Al-Jazeera has done an about-face in the last few days, replacing its previous negative coverage of Egypt with more positive spin – apparently in response (Arabic link) to reconciliation over the weekend between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a special envoy of the emir of Qatar....

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Yesterday, in reaction to Friday’s Sinai terror attack, Egypt closed its borders to “a high-ranking Hamas delegation” and cancelled a session of talks that was scheduled for today and aimed to establish a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The Times of Israel reports: Sissi said on Saturday that “foreign...

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An interview with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aired Monday – the first televised sit-down that the presumptive future president has done during the current campaign – saw Sisi declaring that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be allowed to operate as a national movement under his administration, accusing the Islamist movement of...

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