Egyptian security forces are preparing for anti-Hamas demonstrations. Popular suspicion that the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group may try to bolster the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood against large-scale anti-government protests planned for June 30 has been deepening. Arab-language media is reporting that police authorities are preparing for the backlash. Theories under which Hamas provided...

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah today committed his Lebanon-based Shiite terror group to further fighting in Syria: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group vowed Friday to keep fighting in Syria “wherever needed” and said his Shiite Muslim group has made a “calculated” decision to defend the Syrian regime no matter what the...

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In the latest signs of growing extremism and intolerance in the Arab world’s most populous state, an teacher in Egypt has been fined for blasphemy and an Egyptian-German author critical of radicalism has gone into hiding in Europe. The teacher, a Coptic Christian, was fined this week 100,000 Egyptian pounds –...

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Many of Egypt’s leading artists and intellectuals are demanding the removal of the country’s newly appointed minister of culture. Their concerns revolve around, among other things, the perception that Alaa Abdel-Aziz is attempting to destroy Egypt’s culture: The intellectuals, including writers and artists, also released a handwritten statement, condemning the...

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Lawlessness has become so endemic in Egypt that the U.S. Embassy this week warned Americans away from visiting the country’s famed pyramids. A academic teaching at the American University in Cairo received an email from the embassy warning of “aggressiveness [that] in some cases is closer to criminal conduct… with...

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This week’s campaign to free seven kidnapped Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula exposed deep rifts between the Egyptian army and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government. The regime and its Brotherhood allies are preventing the army from uprooting the terrorist networks in the territory. A top jihadist explains the Brotherhood’s...

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An Israeli official has confirmed to The Tower that Egypt had received permission from Israel ahead of time before launching its current military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. Cairo has poured troops, artillery, and armored vehicles into the territory in response to the kidnapping of seven Egyptian security forces. There...

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Egypt is rolling forces into the Sinai Peninsula in response to the kidnapping of its security personnel. Cairo, of course, is treaty-bound by the Camp David Accords to limit the scope of its deployments in the Sinai Peninsula. When asked whether the armed campaign currently being waged in the territory...

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The recent kidnappings of seven Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula is calling attention to increasing lawlessness in the territory. The weakening of the Egyptian government following the 2011 Arab Spring revolution has allowed an influx of terrorists, including Al Qaeda, to establish bases in the Peninsula. The Sinai...

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Leading Egyptian economists told The Guardian that Egypt is facing its worst economic crisis in eight decades. One of the country’s top economists, Galal Amin, bluntly told the paper that the economic crisis was the worst since the global Great Depression. In terms of its devastating effect on Egypt’s poorest, the...

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