The European Union (EU) is unhappy with reports that Israel plans to publish tenders for the sale of 1,400 housing units in Judea and Samaria, Channel 10 News reported on Thursday. A senior EU official who spoke to the channel issued a direct warning to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying that the EU would
Egypt’s Defense Minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, vowed on Thursday to fight terrorism and stabilize the deeply divided country, Al Arabiya reported. The remarks came hours after an explosion hit a public bus in Cairo, killing one person and wounding at least five others. “Do not worry or fear, the army will sacrifice
Egyptian security forces arrested on Thursday 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including a former lawmaker, a day after their organization was declared by the government a terrorist group. Seven were detained for a renewable two-week period in the city of Alexandria and 11 in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig. They include the son
Mohammed Shtayyeh, Member of the Central Committee of Fatah, a former Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet minister, accused the Israeli government of avoiding political agreements and employing a policy of "settlement" expansion, house demolitions and "killing civilians." Shtayyeh was one of the negotiators who submitted his resignation to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas earlier this year.
One person has been killed and at least four people have been injured after a bomb was thrown at a bus in outside the Azhar University in Cairo Thursday morning. The site of the explosion has been cordoned off and is being investigated by police, according to Egyptian media reports. The apparent
A senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood blasted on Wednesday night the decision by Egypt’s interim government to declare the organization a “terrorist group”. Speaking to AFP, Brotherhood member Ibrahim Munir made clear that the Islamists in Egypt would continue with their near-daily demonstrations despite the blacklist. "The protests will continue, certainly," said
The Egyptian Army announced Wednesday that it had apprehended a Hamas terrorist in the northern Sinai Desert, Al-Arabiya reports. The terrorist was named as Jumaa Khamis Mohammed Brayha, who claimed to stem from a powerful family in Hamas's ranks. During interrogation, according to the Egyptian army, the young man admitted that he was
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, at a conference on Middle Eastern events at Ariel University Wednesday, declared that "the Middle East has gone mad." Steinitz related that the events of the past several years in the region have been far more chaotic than anyone could have expected. On a positive note, however, he praised
Three senior Turkish ministers have resigned as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist government continued to reel from the fallout of an ongoing and controversial corruption scandal. Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan, Interior Minister Muammer Güler and Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar all officially announced their resignations today. Urbanization Minister Bayraktar called on
The Egyptian government has designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, one day after a deadly attack on a security building in the city of Mansoura killed 14 people and wounded more than 100 others. "The Cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation," Deputy Prime Minister
