Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood suddenly fell from grace last week after decades of underground work to reach the heavens. Today, the mighty movement appears to have begun a phase of disintegration, or renewal as some would argue. More than 500 young Brotherhoods have decided to break away from the group, holding its senior hawkish leaders
The Muslim Brotherhood has been accused of gross distortions of the truth in its TV and social-media broadcasts, with some of its messages constituting what one commentator called “a big lie”. Both mainstream media and social channels like Facebook and Twitter became battlegrounds between opposing sides in the unrest that led up
Politically motivated arrests in Egypt make it difficult to see how the country will be able to move beyond its current political crisis, a State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday. “The arrests we have seen over the past several days targeting specific groups are not in line with the national reconciliation that
Egypt's temporary President Adli Mansour announced the establishment of a commission of inquiry which will investigate the events surrounding the deaths of at least 51 people Monday in clashes outside a military building in Cairo. At least 435 people were wounded as well in the incident. Most of those killed were Muslim
Amidst continuing unrest in Egypt, the country's Coptic Christian minority is facing an alarming campaign of violence at the hands of Islamist extremists. In the most recent case, the decapitated body of 60 year old Magdy Habashi was found early Thursday in a cemetery in the town of Sheikh Zweid, in northern Sinai, after
Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil resigned on Monday, addressing the resignation letter to ousted President Mohammad Morsi and decrying the military coup against him, reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu. "I prepared this resignation to present it to his excellence President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday," Qandil said in a statement accompanying his resignation letter.
As the death toll rises in clashes between Egypt’s army and pro-Morsi protesters, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Gaza terrorists are infiltrating the Sinai to attack Egyptian army outposts. Although the army has sealed at least 50 tunnels in the past two weeks, hundreds remain open and active under the border between Egypt and Gaza. A
Palestinian Authority factions Hamas and Fatah are at it again. Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf on Sunday accused Hamas of being responsible for Egypt closing the Rafiah border crossing with Gaza. Egypt decided to close the crossing, he claimed, because Hamas had intervened in Egypt's internal affairs in favor of its parent movement the Muslim
Clashes that led to the death of at least 42 people outside the Egyptian Republican Guard’s headquarters in Cairo will not halt efforts to form a new government, presidency spokesman Ahmed Elmoslmany said on Monday. “What happened will not stop steps to form a government or the [political] roadmap,” he said, adding that the
Iran deems “unacceptable” the Egyptian army's toppling of the country's first freely elected president Mohamed Mursi, the foreign ministry said on Monday. “The intervention of armed forces in political affairs is unacceptable and disturbing,” ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told the Mehr news agency, when asked about the developments in Egypt. “It
