A U.S. institute tracking Iran's military program said on Thursday that recent satellite images show further major alterations of a military site that the UN atomic agency suspects may have been used in trying to develop nuclear arms. The most recent imagery from satellite company Digital Globe is from August 13 and was seen
Tunisia’s opposition coalition on Friday rejected proposals by the ruling Islamists for ending a month-long political crisis, saying its offer to enter talks on a government of technocrats was insufficient. “All negotiations without the dissolution of the government are a waste of time,” said Taieb Baccouche, a representative of the National Salvation Front.
Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers urged Egypt on Wednesday to reopen the border crossing with Gaza that was closed after Islamist terrorists killed 25 Egyptian security personnel in northern Sinai earlier this week. The officers were killed as they were travelling in two buses which came under attack from armed men close to the town
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have no intention of backing down on their protests against the military. With Friday, the day on which the largest protests usually take place following prayers at the mosques, just around the corner, a group of Morsi supporters is calling on Egyptians to hold "Friday of Martyrs"
A firebrand Egyptian cleric and television preacher has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood after his arrest on Wednesday near the Libyan border. Safwat el-Hegazy told investigators that he was not part of the Muslim Brotherhood and that if he could go back in time he would have never supported them, a security source said. “It’s
A spokesperson for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Ahmed Arif, was arrested in an apartment in a Cairo district early Thursday in the escalating crackdown by authorities on the Islamist movement in which hundreds have also been arrested, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported. Arif was arrested after the security forces obtained information of him hiding in
Egypt’s Brotherhood- linked cleric Safwat el-Hegazy had his “beard shaved and hair dyed as a disguise,” when he was arrested this week, according to a local media report. This has prompted analysts to believe that Islamists are adopting a fatwa (religious edict) legalizing the shaving of one’s beard to avoid standing out as Mursi
New cable network Al Jazeera America introduced itself to viewers on Tuesday with reports on political strife in Egypt and the impact of climate change on U.S. cities, shortly after a major pay TV distributor declined to carry the channel. The decision by AT&T's U-verse pay-TV service stemmed from a contract dispute over terms
An Emirati journalist offered to give one million Egyptian pounds ($143,000) for anyone who leads Egyptian security forces to arrest three senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Hamad al-Mazroui made his offer in a Twitter post, saying he would offer the money to whoever discloses the whereabouts of fugitive Brotherhood leaders Mohammad el-Beltagy, Essam el-Erian and
Gas-rich Qatar has dispatched a second shipment of free liquefied gas it had pledged to Egypt, a report said, despite Doha’s criticism of Cairo’s deadly crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters. The tanker left “to brotherly Egypt on August 9,” QNA state news agency said in a report late on Monday. The shipments aim
