Rival rallies between Egyptian opponents and supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi took place throughout Friday, reportedly claimed as many as four lives. The Egyptian military had removed the Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president from power in the aftermath of mass anti-government protests calling for his Islamist-oriented administration to step aside. Morsi’s...

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Hamas on Thursday deepened its campaign against journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, which the Palestinian terror group controls and over which it has tried to exert increasingly authoritarian rule. Three media companies, including the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television station and the Palestinian news agency Ma’an, were shuttered. Al Arabiya and Maan...

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The Egyptian army’s efforts to stabilize the deteriorating security environment in the Sinai Peninsula have involved a range of tactics and strategy, from the mass deployment of troops to the destruction of subterranean smuggling tunnels linking the Egyptian-controlled Sinai to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Egyptian military blames the Palestinian...

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have deployed one battery of the Iron Dome anti-missile system to Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat. The decision was made by the Chief of Staff Lt.General Benny Gantz, after consultations with other commanders of the military and with an eye toward the increased threat...

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At least six Egyptians were killed on Monday in a string of attacks carried out against police station and army checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula. The attacks, conducted by Islamists, added up to the single worst day of violence this month: At least 10 attacks were carried out by Islamist militants against...

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Egypt is preparing to launch a large-scale operation to dislodge jihadist elements in the Sinai Peninsula. The announcement comes after weeks of consistent attacks by gunmen on security checkpoints, police stations, and government buildings, and there may be as many as 30,000 Egyptian troops already deployed in the territory. The identities of the gunmen...

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Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani this week pledged support for the embattled regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. The Iranian proxies were celebrated by the Iranian official, who many had hoped would emerge as a moderate and a reformer, because of their willingness to...

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Creeping insecurity in the Sinai Peninsula punctuated by spectacular attacks had generated months of tension between the Egyptian army and the Muslim Brotherhood-linked government of then-president President Mohammed Morsi, according to a new report by the Associated Press. Citing numerous interviews describing the thinking of the military in genereral, and the country’s military...

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The Sinai Peninsula is fast becoming the primary battleground between the Egyptian military and Islamist groups ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian off-shoot Hamas, to Al-Qaeda and Salafist groups. The peninsula’s always-tenuous stability has been further undermined by the successive falls of Egyptian presidents Hosni Mubarak in 2011...

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Growing concerns that violence from the increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula will spill over into Israel spiked over the weekend, as shots were fired on Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Israeli military officials responded to the incident by ramping up security in southern Israel. Jihadists have engaged in a string of attacks...

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