UPDATE (7:58pm ET): The media outlet linked below is a Kuwaiti outlet citing Egyptian sources originally quoted by an Egyptian outlet, not the original Egyptian outlet itself. It also appears to be a partial reprint of a similar English-language article published in the World Tribune. Thanks to David Kenner, Foreign...

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The Egyptian army moved this week against jihadist elements in the northern Sinai Peninsula, near the border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in the aftermath of an ambush on an Egyptian military convoy. At least 72 terror suspects were detained in the ensuing raids. The anti-terror campaign comes amid ongoing...

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Over the weekend Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to launch another war against Israel, triggering speculation by analysts that the terror group was desperate to restore its flagging popularity by orchestrating spectacular violence against Israel. A website affiliated with Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades is now conveying comments...

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Scholars have struggled for quite literally decades to unpack the development and psychology of suicide terrorism. The indoctrination process involves not just propaganda but institutions which channel and ground particular kinds of ideological moves. A series of recent studies by Israeli Lt. Col. Anat Berko has sought to analyze, more...

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A car bomb targeting Egyptian forces working to uproot terrorist infrastructure in the northern Sinai Peninsula killed four ysterday, a day after a roadside bomb wounded four army soldiers. The violence marks the latest efforts by jihadist groups operating in the area – many of which are linked to Al...

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Weekend violence and political developments inside Lebanon again have observers focusing on the role played by Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons in undermining the country’s stability. Debates over the degree to which the West should target Hezbollah have sometimes turned on claims that, in fact, the Iran-backed terror group is...

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Sunni jihadists yesterday detonated a series of coordinated car bombs in Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, the latest attacks in tit-for-tat violence that has analysts worried the country is slipping back into the all-out sectarian warfare of 2005-2006. At least fifty-four people were killed. The country’s renewed sectarian violence is in...

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At least 78 people were killed in a bombing outside of a Pakistani church Sunday, with the attack being only the latest in a cascade of anti-Christian violence that has rocked the Middle East and Africa in recent months. In Egypt, Islamist supporters of the country’s deposed former President Mohammed...

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Egypt’s media is responding to President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly with something between enthusiastic approval and outright euphoria. The overarching perception is that, the occasional caveat aside, the White House has accepted that American interests require ongoing work with the army-backed interim government: Analysts believe the US...

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With many analysts and politicians crediting the international sanctions regime for bringing Iran to the negotiating table – and with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani focusing on sanctions in a speech that many panned as angry and combative – analyst attention is turning to the degree to which trade and financial...

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