Egypt’s army chief said on Sunday the military will not let “one group” dominate the country, intensifying a standoff with the Muslim Brotherhood from which the new president has emerged. “Egypt will not fall. It is for all Egyptians and not just one group... The armed forces will not allow it,” Field Marshal Hussein
President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon visited Israel secretly over the weekend in what one Israeli newspaper says was an attempt to convince Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. He met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and National Security Advisor Gen. Yaakov Amidror. "National Security Advisor
FOREIGN MINISTER AMR: (Via interpreter.) I’m delighted to have Mrs. Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State here for the first time to Egypt since the revolution. It’s a very important visit, and especially in light of the U.S.-Egyptian historic relation, which serve the interest of both countries and which go back to 40 years ago.
A growing terrorist state in Sinai and disputes among Arabs in Lebanon increase the likelihood of more missile attacks on Israel, says a defense analyst. Dr. Norman A. Bailey, Ph.D., is a lecturer at The Israeli National Defense College and an assistant professor at the Washington-based Institute of World Politics, wrote in Globes that
Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said on Thursday that Israel is preparing for the possibility of military action in Syria, in case its chemical weapons were to end up in the hands of Hizbullah or other terrorist organizations in the region. Yatom spoke to the British Sky News, which reported that Israel is deeply
“President Mursi made clear he understands the success of his presidency and Egypt’s transition depends on building consensus across Egypt’s political spectrum; to work on a new constitution’ to protect civil society; to draft a new constitution that will be respected by all and to assert the full authority of the presidency,” Clinton said.
Khaled Meshaal, the politburo chief of Hamas, on Saturday attended the opening of the first conference of Morocco’s ruling Party of Justice and Development (PJD) since the moderate Islamists won November polls. “Khaled Meshaal arrived yesterday evening in Rabat and is participating in the opening of our party conference,” Abdelaali Hamiddine, a party leader,
The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan held a meeting at a hotel in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Adaba on Saturday, their first such talks since the two countries came close to war in April over a border dispute and oil revenues. Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir met today
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The mother of Mohammed Bouazizi, the street vendor whose self-immolation sparked a mass uprising in Tunisia that touched off the Arab Spring, has been remanded in custody for insulting an official, the justice ministry said on Saturday. Manoubia Bouazizi, 60, was arrested on Friday after an altercation with a judge in a court in
