Egypt’s generals have set political rules that could keep the army in power for years, one of their senior Islamist opponents warned on Wednesday, but the Muslim Brotherhood will not fight back in the way that plunged Algeria into bloody civil war. Saad al-Katatni, speaker of the short-lived democratic parliament dissolved by the ruling
Egypt's electoral commission won't release the results of the country's presidential run-off till at least the weekend, "Saturday or Sunday," and possibly even later, an official announced late Wednesday. The commission said the announcement was postponed due to an investigation into complaints over voting fraud, local media reported. Some 400 complaints were submitted by
Yemeni security forces carried out air strikes in which 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the south of the country on Wednesday and said they foiled a plot to attack embassies. A Yemeni Red Cross worker was also killed in the air raids as he travelled in the south on a mission
The military wing of Hamas said late on Wednesday it had agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel, after three days of bloodshed in and around Gaza. “In response to the Egyptian efforts to try and stop the aggression on our people, we at al-Qassam Brigades and all resistance factions declare our commitment to
The body overseeing Egypt’s presidential election said it would not announce the results on Thursday as planned, saying it needed more time to study appeals from the candidates, but did not say when it might be ready, the state news agency reported. The Egyptian presidential run-off pitted the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi against Ahmed
This week’s attacks on the Egypt-Israel border has renewed concerns on the security of the Sinai Peninsula, putting into question the effectiveness of the peace treaty between the two countries that was established over 3 decades ago. Last night, an Islamist militant group under the name “Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Jerusalem,” released
A coalition of independent judges in Egypt said on Wednesday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Mursi has won the presidential election, beating former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to their tally. The group, named “Judges for Egypt,” said Mursi had won with 13.2 million votes while Shafiq had amassed 12. 3 million.
Dennis Ross, former senior adviser to U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, says he believes the Muslim Brotherhood will win Egypt's presidential election. Ross made the statement Wednesday at the fourth annual Israeli Presidential Conference “Facing Tomorrow 2012,” being held this week in Jerusalem. Ambassador Ross said he believes that Muslim Brotherhood
In a joint IDF and Shin Bet activity Wednesday in southern Gaza, IAF aircraft targeted a Global Jihad terror operative involved in the planning and execution of Monday's terror attack against Israeli construction workers. One Israeli civilian was killed in that attack, which took place on the Israel-Egypt border. Earlier, IAF aircraft struck
Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak is close to death, conflicting previous state news agency reports that he was “clinically dead,” Egyptian military sources said in the early hours of Wednesday. The 84-year-old is said to have had a stroke and was moved from prison to life support in an army hospital, where he is
