At least 25 Egyptian police officers were murdered yesterday by suspected Islamists who ambushed two police minibuses traveling near border between Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. CBS News described the situation as a “bloodletting.” The Associated Press characterized the killings as “execution-style.” The details are brutal: The militants forced...

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The Washington Post headlines its late afternoon coverage of the Egyptian crisis as “clashes erupt in Egypt as [Mohammed] Morsi supporters observe ‘day of rage’.” Egypt slid closer to civil conflict Friday after anti-government demonstrations called by the Muslim Brotherhood erupted in widespread violence involving the security forces, protesters and armed civilians on both...

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The Associated Press reports that the death toll in Egypt is nearing 700, amid demonstrations conducted by what the outlet describes as “tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters” calling for the reinstatement of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president Mohammed Morsi. Official numbers released by the Egyptian Health Ministry last...

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Egyptian government and military forces are struggling to dampen violence this evening, after a day of clashes between the army and supporters of Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi reportedly killed over 230 protesters and 43 police officers. Cairo is urging Morsi supporters to “listen to the voice of...

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The BBC reports on “a further backlash” against Egypt’s Christians, who have found themselves increasingly subject to physical attacks – up to and including several murders – at the hands of Islamists who support former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of Christianity’s oldest, founded in Alexandria around 50 AD....

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Hamas authorities in Gaza are intensifying their crack down on political activity across a number of platforsm. The Palestinian terror group si reportedly driven, among other things, by fears that the territory could experience mass protests like those that overthrow the organization’s Muslim Brotherhood allies in Egypt. Gazan activists, unhappy...

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Earlier this month, a Coptic Christian man was found beheaded in the Sinai Peninsula. Scores of Christian homes have been burned. Massive intimidation marches, death threats, and a string of attacks have all increased in recent weeks, amid Islamist conspiracy theories that blame Christians for the removal from power of former President Mohammed...

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Egyptian authorities will prevent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from going through with a plan that would have seen the Islamist official travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip through Egypt, according to sources who spoke to Egyptian media outlets. The development is the result of multiple Middle East dynamics. The Egyptian...

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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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Two national security experts took to the Huffington Post yesterday to brush aside complaints from Muslim Brotherhood supporters regarding the removal from power of Egypt’s former Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi. James Farwell and Darby Arakelian, who specialize in among other things communication and persuasion, sought to be explicit about who’s...

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