Egyptian security forces today arrested one of the few prominent Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood figures who have thus far escaped a decapitation campaign being waged against the Islamist group by Egypt’s army-backed interim government: The arrest of Essam el-Erian, the deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice party,...

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Hamas spent weeks in fall 2012 deliberately escalating the amount and sophistication of rockets and missiles it launched against Israelis. The result was an eight-day bombing campaign by Israel that severely degraded the group’s command and control infrastructure and highlighted Hamas’s ability to penetrate Israel’s Iron Dome-based missile shield. To...

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After weeks of reports that participation was falling at Brotherhood-driven demonstrations, Islamist supporters of Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi are promising to hold rallies explicitly targeting Israel and Egyptian-Israeli cooperation. “Sinai is witnessing continuous attacks on the homes of local people by coup troops who are trying to establish a buffer...

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For months after the Egyptian military moved against the Muslim Brotherhood-linked government of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, clashes throughout the country were described by Egyptian media outlets as battles between “Morsi supporters” and “Morsi opponents.” Political lines have apparently sharpened in recent weeks, and Morsi opponents now have someone...

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U.S. officials have confirmed to the Daily Beast the details of a Washington Post report revealing that Turkey last year deliberately burned roughly 10 Israeli spies who were working in Iran on the country’s nuclear program. The Daily Beast quotes former Israeli Mossad chief Danny Yatom describing the move as...

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Two young girls were among the four people killed outside a church Sunday in the Egyptian city of Giza, the latest in what the Associated Press described in early August as a “stepped-up hate campaign” against the country’s Coptic Christian community. Samuel Tadros, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center...

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The IDF has announced the discovery and destruction of a second tunnel dug underneath Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, following one disclosed earlier this week that had been built to open up near a kindergarten which authorities believe Palestinian terrorists intended to target. The new tunnel stretched dozens of yards into Israel,...

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Politico this morning chased down three top U.S. defense contractors to assess the effects they were feeling from the U.S.’s partial freeze on Egyptian military assistance. The conclusion of the article was that “if the U.S.-Egyptian relationship is patched up quickly enough,” then the impacts could at least be “manageable.”...

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White House officials announced Wednesday night that the Obama administration will substantially curtail assistance to Egypt, but that they aspired, according to the Washington Post, “to maintain a robust military and diplomatic partnership with Egypt.” Among other restrictions, the administration will withhold delivery on high-priority military items such as F-16...

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CNN last night announced that they had a bit of a scooplet about Egypt, and that the White House planned to cut off aid to Cairo in the wake of the army’s July move to depose the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked former president Mohammed Morsi. The news came as a surprise...

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