Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday, citing prison breaks across nine nations in the past month, reported the New York Times. The international police organization said that Islamist terror group Al Qaeda is suspected of playing a role in some of the jailbreaks, and asked for help to determine whether the operations
Firebrand Muslim Brotherhood preacher Safwat Hegazi threated on Tuesday to “break the necks of former regime figures and symbols of the National Salvation Front” if ousted President Mohammad Mursi is hurt. Hegazi made the statement during a speech at a pro-Mursi sit-in being staged for over a month now at Cairo’s Rabia al-
In most of the world, children's entertainment is about happy, innocent fun, child-friendly education and positive vibes. Not so in much of the Arab world, where children's TV programs - from cartoons to poetry recitals - are all too often used as a tool to incite violence and hatred. Who can forget Hamas'
U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham urged Egypt’s military-backed government to release jailed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and called on rival parties in the country to engage in a national dialogue and avoid violence. McCain and Graham met with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of international efforts
The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World Tribune. Diplomats told the Tribune that the Obama administration has enabled the U.S. intelligence community to disclose details of Israeli military operations against the
A U.S. envoy met Egyptian officials Saturday amid efforts to find a peaceful solution to the stand-off between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi and the army-installed interim government. William Burns met Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, hours after seeing members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party,
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's stern features look down from behind aviator sunglasses in photos on Egypt's front pages and from street posters, and there's already talk of a presidential run. In the weeks since the army he heads evicted President Mohammad Mursi from office after nationwide protests against the elected Islamist head of
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that the Egyptian army, which deposed President Mohammed Morsi, had intervened at the request of millions to protect democracy and had restored it, AFP reported. Kerry made the remarks in a interview in Pakistan, where he earlier congratulated the new government on an historic
The Egyptian Interior Ministry called on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammad Mursi on Thursday to end their sit-in, guaranteeing them a “safe exit.” The ministry “calls on those in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares to let reason and the national interest prevail, and to quickly leave,” it said in a statement, a day
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain have been asked by President Barack Obama to travel to Egypt next week to urge the military to move ahead on new elections, the senators said Tuesday. Egypt has been roiled by deadly protests since President Mohammad Mursi was toppled in a military coup on July
