Interpol issued “red notice” arrest warrants for more than 40 senior Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figures over the weekend, including the head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. A red notice seeks “the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful...

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At least twenty members of a cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested “on suspicion of forming a military wing and planning to smuggle arms into the West Bank,” according to a report today in The Times of Israel. The men, all members of the Muslim Brotherhood or...

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In a case that has dragged for years in a trial dubbed as the “trial of the century” by local media, a Cairo court on the weekend acquitted on former President Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. The Cairo Criminal...

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The ultra-conservative Salafist Front, an Islamist political organization, has called for a “Muslim revolution” (Arabic link) across Egypt on Friday, November 28 in order to “impose Islamic identity without disguise” and to “impose Islamic sharia” law. The Salafist Front, formed after the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, also demands...

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday formally endorsed the designation of 82 organizations as terror groups, in line with its federal law on combating terrorism, Al- Arabiya TV reported. A list of the designated organizations, published by the country’s state-run WAM news agency, includes Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the organization’s local...

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The Egyptian military said that one of its navy vessels came under a terrorist attack in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday, leaving eight servicemen missing at sea and presumed dead, and another five wounded. Four boats used by the assailants were destroyed and more than 30 of the suspected fighters were...

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The Muslim Brotherhood organization is supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to various Egyptian sources. These accusations have gained weight in recent days, after senior officials in the organization condemned a new book called Islamic State…The Knife Slaughtering Islam, which is due to be published in...

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On Thursday, senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzook announced that the group was poised to resume indirect ceasefire negotiations with Israel at the end of October. Marzook noted that while talks would likely touch on the topic of conducting a prisoner exchange for the remains of Israeli soldiers, it is...

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Omri Ceren writes in the lead article of the October 2014 issue of Commentary Magazine that, contrary to the claims of Hamas and several critics of Israel, the IDF defeated Hamas in this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge. Ceren is the managing director for press and strategy at The Israel Project, publisher of...

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Earlier this week, the Jerusalem Post reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had harsh words for the countries of Turkey and Qatar. The Egyptian president told a group of newspaper editors that “Qatar, Turkey and the international organization of the Brotherhood are currently establishing many companies, newspapers and websites. They allocated hundreds of millions...

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